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Packaging or Installing MeTA

Please follow these slightly modified build instructions if you are either a packager and you want to make a package of MeTA for your distribution, or if you simply want to install MeTA to e.g. /usr/local.

You will need the following cmake flags:

  • -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=On: build .so libraries instead of .a.
  • -DBUILD_STATIC_ICU=On: force building a static ICU library as part of meta-utf.so to ensure Unicode standard stability.

If you are building for a Linux platform, you must use GCC. Do not use Clang/libc++, as the library throws exceptions and must be built in the same way all other C++ applications on the system are expected to be built.

MeTA will require cpptoml to be installed. This is straightforward as cpptoml is header-only. Please follow the standard cmake build instructions for cpptoml and package using make install to install the CMake configuration files for cpptoml. This allows MeTA's CMake configuration files to find cpptoml as a dependency.

MeTA can then be installed using make install.

Using an Installed MeTA

You can consume MeTA most easily by using a CMake build system (though you do not have to). Your CMakeLists.txt might look something like the following:

find_package(MeTA 2.4 REQUIRED)

add_executable(my-program my_program.cpp)
target_link_libraries(my-program meta-index) # or any other MeTA libraries