I'm trying to build celluloid, which uses meson. I ran meson, but it failed to find an appropriate version of mpv:
Determining dependency 'mpv' with pkg-config executable '/usr/bin/pkg-config'
Called `/usr/bin/pkg-config --modversion mpv` -> 1
Found CMake: /usr/bin/cmake (3.13.4)
Determining dependency 'mpv' with CMake executable '/usr/bin/cmake'
Try CMake generator: auto
Called `/usr/bin/cmake --trace-expand -DNAME=mpv .` in /tmp/celluloid-0.20/build/meson-private/cmake_mpv -> 0
Dependency mpv found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
src/meson.build:125:0: ERROR: Dependency "mpv" not found, tried pkgconfig and cmake
so I downloaded and built the latest mpv release (0.33.0), built and installed it at /opt/mpv
.
Now - how do I tell meson to take mpv
from this new path?
Note: The relevant snippet of the meson files seems to be:
executable('celluloid', sources,
dependencies: [
libgtk,
libgio,
meson.get_compiler('c').find_library('m', required: false),
dependency('mpv', version: '>= 1.107'),
dependency('epoxy')
],
link_with: extra_libs,
include_directories: includes,
c_args: cflags,
install: true
)
You tell meson about your dependency by letting pkgconfig know about your dependency...
and that can be done by adding your dependency's path to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH
environment variable; it is delimited by colons, just like PATH
, e.g. /opt/foo:/opt/extra/baz
.
Remember that you may also need to add associated paths to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
after building and installing with a custom-built directory.
PS - Just so that we're clear... I don't like this state of affairs. I would have liked Meson to let me override what it learns from pkg-config, and tell me about that possibility in its error message upon failing to locate the dependency.