Issue 6226 - Use mesonbuild as a build system

Issue 6226 - Use mesonbuild as a build system

[DONE] Currently build libadblockplus and run the test

[almost DONE] Needs to ensure it builds with Windows

[DONE] Needs to ensure we can build for Android

Also can be adapted to build adblockpluscore as a subproject when we start using the emscripten code.

[hub, 2017-09-06 14:27:33]

This is not functional yet.

[Felix Dahlke, 2017-12-21 10:57:52]

1) I don't think switching build systems should be done without an issue that
has some more details.

2) I'm not the right person to review that, in this case it'd be sergz. Happy to
have a look and provide feedback though, of course. Is that the idea here?

[hub, 2018-01-02 12:46:22]

On 2017/12/21 10:57:52, Felix Dahlke wrote:
> 1) I don't think switching build systems should be done without an issue that
> has some more details.
> 
> 2) I'm not the right person to review that, in this case it'd be sergz. Happy
to
> have a look and provide feedback though, of course. Is that the idea here?

I just stashed it here until we were making a decision that would lead me to
actually either drop it or finish it. I will file an issue now that the meson
build is merged for the emscripten branch and we can take it from there.

[hub, 2018-01-02 14:08:17]

Filed https://issues.adblockplus.org/ticket/6226

[hub, 2018-03-27 20:56:58]

I need to fix a few issues for build android, but this should work. I also have
experimental iOS.

[hub, 2018-04-03 15:04:11]

This is currently in a good state for feedback / review. I was wondering if I
should move the "wrap_*" scripts to a subdir.

[hub, 2018-06-20 00:58:44]

This require to be rebase and fixed for the new things in the build system, like
using prebuilt v8.

[sergei, 2018-06-20 15:18:21]

On 2018/06/20 00:58:44, hub wrote:
> This require to be rebase and fixed for the new things in the build system,
like
> using prebuilt v8.

Yeah, currently ndk-build fails on osx for android-ia32-release because it
cannot find 'asm/types.h' because some -isystem path is not configured (actually
to i686-linux-android). So perhaps that direction can get on the frontier. JIC,
this particular issue is not observable on travis-ci, but there is another
issues with packages on linux.

[sergei, 2018-06-20 15:20:06]

> [almost DONE] Needs to ensure it builds with Windows
I would add that it should work on linux, not only osx because we build it on
linux too in abp-chromium.

[sergei, 2018-06-20 15:21:25]

since building of V8 is not a part of libabp, anything related to it can be
dropped too.

[hub, 2018-06-20 15:44:16]

On 2018/06/20 15:20:06, sergei wrote:
> > [almost DONE] Needs to ensure it builds with Windows
> I would add that it should work on linux, not only osx because we build it on
> linux too in abp-chromium.

I did check on Linux.

[hub, 2018-08-07 17:38:55]

This review request has been moved to 

https://gitlab.com/eyeo/adblockplus/libadblockplus/merge_requests/8