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a very outdated version - I've installed the latest version of meson using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.

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!
>