IDisposable Thoughts

This is one of those things I always do and somehow I forget about it next day, how to properly have a Gradle build definition file with Kotlin and ANTLR? Yes, ANTLR generates your parser and lexer skeleton and you want to write your specialized classes using them in Kotlin …

Some time ago I wrote a small piece about using the Thread dependencies in CMake and if I remember correctly it was a little tricky to set the correct threads library (Unix systems has a pthreads library, for example). Guess what? is super easy to do it in Meson!

Let …

Ok, I had talked a lot about Conan in the past and how it integrates nicely with build systems like CMake. Conan has a really huge list of packages and is really simple to use but sadly, there are no straigh instructions about using Meson with Conan… Imagine that, your …

Ok, last time I mentioned how to include wraps from the wrapdb into a meson build and it was all happy! But what if the dependency we need is not in the wrap database?

Well, as many other things in engineering, it depends, the most simplest case (what I am …

I know Meson has been out for a while and somehow those days it didn’t fit into my workflow. Times had changed and now is a pretty awesome build system, supported by a wide range of projects (especially in Linux) and many IDEs and editors (for example, CLion and …