Project settings

This page lists the configuration settings supported by meson-python in the pyproject.toml file. Please refer to the Passing arguments to Meson guide for for information on how to use them and examples.

tool.meson-python.allow-windows-internal-shared-libs

Enable support for relocating internal shared libraries that would be installed into the system shared library location to the .<package-name>.mesonpy.libs folder also on Windows. The relocation can be done transparently on UNIX platforms and on macOS, where the shared library load path can be adjusted via RPATH or equivalent mechanisms. Windows lacks a similar facility, thus the Python package is responsible to extend the DLL load path to include this directory or to preload the shared libraries. See here for detailed documentation. This option ensures that the package authors are aware of this requirement.

tool.meson-python.limited-api

A boolean indicating whether the extension modules contained in the Python package target the Python limited API. Extension modules can be compiled for the Python limited API specifying the limited_api argument to the extension_module() function in the Meson Python module. When this setting is set to true, the value abi3 is used for the Python wheel filename ABI tag.

This setting is automatically reverted to false when the -Dpython.allow_limited_api=false option is passed to meson setup.

tool.meson-python.meson

A string specifying the meson executable or script to use. If it is a path to an existing file with a name ending in .py, it will be invoked as a Python script using the same Python interpreter that is used to run meson-python itself. It can be overridden by the MESON environment variable.

tool.meson-python.args.dist

Extra arguments to be passed to the meson dist command.

tool.meson-python.args.setup

Extra arguments to be passed to the meson setup command.

tool.meson-python.args.compile

Extra arguments to be passed to the ninja command.

tool.meson-python.args.install

Extra arguments to be passed to the meson install command.