Release notes for 0.37.0

0.37.0 is not released yet, these are preliminary

New features

Mesontest

Mesontest is a new testing tool that allows you to run your tests in many different ways. As an example you can run tests multiple times:

mesontest --repeat=1000 a_test

or with an arbitrary wrapper executable:

mesontest --wrap='valgrind --tool=helgrind' a_test

or under gdb, 1000 times in a row. This is handy for tests that fail spuriously, as when the crash happens you are given the full GDB command line:

mesontest --repeat=1000 --gdb a_test

Mesonrewriter

Mesonrewrite is an experimental tool to manipulate your build definitions programmatically. It is not installed by default yet but those interested can run it from the source repository.

As an example, here is how you would add a source file to a build target:

mesonrewriter add --target=program --filename=new_source.c

Shared modules

The new shared_module function allows the creation of shared modules, that is, extension modules such as plugins that are meant to be used solely with dlopen rather than linking them to targets.

Gnome module

• Detect required programs and print useful errors if missing

gtkdoc

• Allow passing a list of directories to src_dir kwarg
• Add namespace kwarg
• Add mode kwarg
• Fix gtkdoc-scangobj finding local libraries

compile_resources

• Add gresource_bundle kwarg to output .gresource files
• Add export and install_header kwargs
• Use depfile support available in GLib >= 2.52.0

i18n module

• Add merge_file() function for creating translated files
• Add preset kwarg to included common gettext flags
• Read languages from LINGUAS file

Other stuff

Add your highlights here.