Hello,

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 11:10:11AM +0530, Niklas Finkel wrote:
> Thank you so much for your email. The meson package installed by default is
> a very outdated version - I've installed the latest version of meson using
> pip but I have no idea how to do 'meson b' with pip.

You can also try lowering the version requirement in the meson.build file,
to avoid that:

  meson_version : '>= 0.46.0',

it may work with earlier versions too. I haven't tested.

regards,
	o.

> I'll have to get a better understanding of meson and ninja before I can get
> this to work.
> 
> On Monday, November 11, 2019, Ondřej Jirman <megatools@megous.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 08:22:43AM +0530, Niklas Finkel wrote:
> > > Hello, I hope you're well.
> > >
> > > Firstly, I'd like to thank you for all you do. Megatools is one of the
> > > reasons why I still upload to MEGA, otherwise I would have given up on
> > it a
> > > long time ago.
> > >
> > > I had a query - I am trying one of the new experimental builds you've
> > > uploaded on the site on my Ubuntu machine. The version I've downloaded
> > is:
> > >
> > > megatools-1.11.0-git-20191107.tar.gz               07-Nov-2019 14:49
> > >        101957
> > >
> > > When I try to install it like every past installation of megatools
> > > (extract, ./configure, make, make install) it won't work on ./configure
> >
> > megatools now use meson build system. (https://mesonbuild.com/)
> >
> > just run:
> >
> >   meson b
> >   ninja -C b
> >   sudo ninja -C b install
> >
> > I hope it will work.
> >
> > regards,
> >         o.
> >
> > > I've read the README but I couldn't find any details in there either. Any
> > > idea on how I could get this to work? The files/folders inside the
> > archive
> > > are as follows:
> > >
> > > *contrib*  install-symlinks.sh  LICENSE      meson_options.txt  README
> > TODO
> > >
> > > *docs*     *lib*                  meson.build  NEWS               *tests*
> > > *tools*
> > >
> > > Thank you!
> >