README: add build instructions (meson/python)
Some of the documentation was out of date after the removal of
the autotools support. Fix up the documentation and add more
information on building with meson.
Resolves openbmc/sdbusplus#47.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Williams <patrick@stwcx.xyz>
Change-Id: I7c1026584435815b41726550ced9dd6cb53122ea
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0c0177d..8a462d7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -14,6 +14,29 @@
The sdbus++ application requires Python 3 and the Python libraries mako
and inflection.
+## Building
+
+The sdbusplus library is built using meson.
+
+```
+meson build
+cd build
+ninja
+ninja test
+ninja install
+```
+
+Optionally, building the tests and examples can be disabled by passing
+`-Dtests=disabled` and `-Dexamples=disabled` respectively to `meson.
+
+The sdbus++ application is installed as a standard Python package
+using `setuptools`.
+
+```
+cd tools
+./setup.py install
+```
+
## C++ library
The sdbusplus library builds on top of the
@@ -98,7 +121,7 @@
org/freedesktop/Example.md
```
-See the `example/Makefile.am` for more details.
+See the `example/meson.build` for more details.
## Installing sdbusplus on custom distributions
@@ -110,13 +133,13 @@
### Installation on Ubuntu
```
-sudo apt install git autoconf libtool pkg-config g++ autoconf-archive libsystemd-dev python3 python3-pip python3-yaml python3-mako python3-inflection
+sudo apt install git meson libtool pkg-config g++ libsystemd-dev python3 python3-pip python3-yaml python3-mako python3-inflection
```
### Installation on Fedora
```
-sudo dnf install git autoconf libtool gcc-c++ pkgconfig autoconf-archive systemd-devel python3 python3-pip python3-yaml python3-mako
+sudo dnf install git meson libtool gcc-c++ pkgconfig systemd-devel python3 python3-pip python3-yaml python3-mako
```
Install the inflection package using the pip utility (on Fedora)
```