Re: Meson

Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:42:08 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.os.cygwin.applications
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On 26/01/2026 14:30, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 26/01/2026 13:45, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> Hi Jon,
>>
>> the current Meson is only for python3.9,
>>
>> can you extend to cover also 3.12 ?
> 
> Yeah, I'm afraid I'm rather behind in updating meson.
> 
> I'll try to look into it.
> 
>> python-cairo is expecting "mesonpy" as available module.
>>
>> pip._vendor.pyproject_hooks._impl.BackendUnavailable: Cannot import 
>> 'mesonpy'
>> pip3.12 wheel failed
>   But meson itself is strictly a command line tool. I don't think it 
> provides an importable python module.
> 
> 'mesonpy' is provided by the 'meson-python' python package [1].
> 
> (I think this internally runs 'meson' to do the actual builds.)
> 
> [1] https://pypi.org/project/meson-python/
> 

Packaged and uploaded as python3{9,12}-meson-python.

Please let me know if there are any problems with that.