Invoke VS meson

Compare Invoke vs meson and see what are their differences.

Invoke

Pythonic task management & command execution. (by pyinvoke)
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Invoke meson
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4,403 5,596
0.8% 1.2%
0.8 9.8
22 days ago 4 days ago
Python Python
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License Apache License 2.0
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Invoke

Posts with mentions or reviews of Invoke. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-12.

meson

Posts with mentions or reviews of meson. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-09-02.
  • cargo-c common questions
    4 projects | dev.to | 2 Sep 2024
    With cargo-c I try to use the best practices to support as many platform as possible, trying to stay in sync with what meson does. Sadly what is conceptually trivial, installing a package, has lots of details that are platform-specific.
  • Ask HN: How to handle user file uploads?
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 May 2024
  • Which Build Tool for a Bootstrappable Project?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Apr 2024
    [1]: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/8153
  • Building Waybar fails
    1 project | /r/hyprland | 26 Nov 2023
  • How to find a list of all gcc errors/warnings?
    1 project | /r/C_Programming | 4 Oct 2023
    As it happens, I recently landed a PR in meson to add a clang-like Weverything mode that includes all of that, so you can get a minimal list of more or less all GCC warnings, organized by version, from the meson source here: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/blob/710a753c78077220b13a9f7e999dcdb61339efb1/mesonbuild/compilers/mixins/gnu.py
  • Makefile Tutorial
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Sep 2023
    Came here to post the same. The answer for How to build software? is Meson[1] for C and C++ and also other languages. Works well on Windows and Mac, too.

    I’ve written a small Makefile to learn the basic and backgrounds. Make is fine. But the next high-level would have been Autotools, which is an intimidating and weird set of tools. Most new stuff written in C/C++ use now Meson and it feels sane.

    [1] https://mesonbuild.com

  • CMake x make?
    2 projects | /r/C_Programming | 20 Sep 2023
    If you are very fortunate, you'll be able to choose something else. I like meson myself: it looks a bit like python, it's popular, small, simple, well-documented, easy to install and update, and it works well everywhere.
  • C++ Papercuts
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Aug 2023
    I suggest changing the build tool. Meson improved C and C++ a lot:

    https://mesonbuild.com/

    The dependency declaration and auto-detection is nice. But the hidden extra is WrapDB, built-in package management (if wanted):

        https://mesonbuild.com/Wrap-dependency-system-manual.html
  • A Modern C Development Environment
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Aug 2023
    > C's only REAL problem (in my opinion) which is the lack of dependency management. Most everything else can be done with a makefile and a half decent editor.

    Care to hear about our lord and saviour Meson?

    Both of your quoted problems are mutually incompatible: dependency management isn't the job of the compiler, it's a job for the build or host system. If you want to keep writing makefiles, be prepared to write your own `wget` and `git` invocations to download subprojects.

    Meanwhile, Meson solves the dependency management problem in a way that makes both developers and system integrators/distributions happy. It forces you to make a project that doesn't have broken inter-file or header dependency chains and cleans up all the clutter and cruft of a makefile written for any non-trivial project, while making it trivial to integrate other meson projects into your build, let other people integrate your project into theirs, and provides all of the toggles and environment variables distribution developers need to package your library properly. You can really have your cake and eat it too.

    https://mesonbuild.com/

  • cgen: another declarative CMake configuration generator
    7 projects | /r/cpp | 24 Jun 2023
    Other people going down this route seem to end up writing cmake replacements instead. I'm thinking of something like meson here except that meson never intended to transpile to cmake.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Invoke and meson you can also consider the following projects:

doit - CLI task management & automation tool

CMake - Mirror of CMake upstream repository

Nox - Flexible test automation for Python

ninja - a small build system with a focus on speed

SCons

PlatformIO - Your Gateway to Embedded Software Development Excellence :alien:

Bazel - a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system

PyBuilder - Software build automation tool for Python.

cmake-init - The missing CMake project initializer

buildout - Buildout is a deployment automation tool written in and extended with Python

BitBake - The official bitbake Git is at https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/. Do not open issues or file pull requests here.

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