From b1d2c2c6409f238b8774557d001bfeb5a1de9097 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Romain Vimont Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 00:08:41 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Explain how to install up-to-date meson On Ubuntu 16.04, meson is 0.29, while scrcpy requires >= 0.37. Explain how to install a newer version from pip3. --- BUILD.md | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/BUILD.md b/BUILD.md index 6d4d6431..5e8042f4 100644 --- a/BUILD.md +++ b/BUILD.md @@ -51,6 +51,15 @@ sudo apt install make gcc pkg-config meson \ sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk ``` +On old versions (like Ubuntu 16.04), `meson` is too old. In that case, install +it from `pip3`: + +```bash +sudo apt install python3-pip +pip3 install meson +``` + + #### Fedora ```bash