Building Sawmill

Warning

The following instructions are a work-in-progress and may not be entirely up to date.

System Requirements

To build Sawmill, ensure you have the following build time dependencies:

  • git

  • meson

  • ninja

  • g++ >= 11 or clang++ >= 11

Configuring

You can build Sawmill with the default options, all of which can be found in meson_options.txt. You can change these by specifying -D<OPTION_NAME>=<VALUE> at initial meson invocation time, or with meson configure in the build directory post initial configure.

To change the install prefix, which is /usr/local by default ensure to pass --prefix <PREFIX> when running meson for the first time.

In either case, simply running meson build from the root of the repository will be sufficient and place all of the build files in the build subdirectory.

Building

Once you have configured Sawmill appropriately, to simply build and install simply run the following:

$ ninja -C build
$ ninja -C build test # Optional: Run Tests
$ ninja -C build install

This will build and install Sawmill into the default prefix which is /usr/local, to change that see the configuration steps above.

Notes to Package Maintainers

If you are building Sawmill for inclusion in a distributions package system then ensure to set DESTDIR prior to running meson install.

There is also a bugreport_url configuration option that is set to this repositories issues tracker by default, it is recommended to change it to your distributions bug tracking page.