Kiran Chauhan

Next, we are going to use external library in our project. For the demonstration purpose, we will use zlib, a data compression library that is available on many platforms. To install it, run one of the suitable command for your system.

Next, we are interested to pass some options to compilation process such as -Wall and -Wextra to show the possible code warnings. Apart from this, we are also interested in to set the C standard such as std17.

Now, let’s move on and add more C files in this project. Because you will have many files in the normal project, otherwise you can manage the compilation of a single file via a command and you don’t need the build system!

Meson is a user friendly build system. It uses the Ninja build system under the hood. We need to install a couple of software.