Build the library

You can build this libary from its sources using Meson, you will need to clone the repository or download the source code and build with Meson.

The build options specific to this project are:

mygl_build_examples: build the examples programs (default: false)
mygl_build_docs: build the html documentation (default: false)
mygl_docs_only: only build the documentation (default: false)

They are specified on the command line using the following syntax:

meson setup build -Dmygl_build_examples=true

Some relevant Meson options are:

--buildtype: sets the build type (debug, debugoptimized, release, minsize, ...)
--prefix: path to the directory where the library will be installed
--default-library: sets the type of library which is built (static, shared or both)

This library depends on glfw, freetype, utfcpp and glm. Except for glm which is included in the sources, the other libraries are either found on the system or dowloaded through Meson's WrapDB packages. In order to automatically download the libraries, you should execute the command meson wrap update-db before configuring the project.

Example

The installation procedure should look something like this:

git clone https://github.com/tretre91/MyGL.git
cd MyGL
meson wrap update-db
meson setup build --buildtype=release
cd build
meson compile
meson install

Build the documentation

In order to build the documentation you will need to have doxygen installed and enable the mygl_build_docs or mygl_docs_only option when configuring the project.

git clone https://github.com/tretre91/MyGL.git
cd MyGL
meson setup build -Dmygl_docs_only=true
cd build
meson compile docs/docs # only build the docs target
meson install