[vlc-commits] [Git][videolan/vlc][master] libvlc: meson: expose a public dependency object

[Steve Lhomme (@robUx4)]

Steve Lhomme pushed to branch master at VideoLAN / VLC


Commits:
5d957344 by Alaric Senat at 2026-06-02T13:33:30+00:00
libvlc: meson: expose a public dependency object

This is helps a lot with using libvlc via the meson subproject system.
Meson expects its subprojects to declare a public dependency object that
contains all the requirements to build it.

The `override_dependency` call maps the dependency objects in meson's
global dependency name registry allowing the top-project to lookup like
a native dependency, eg. `libvlc_dep = dependency('libvlc')`.

This mechanism is already used by libvlcpp as a side patch. [^1]

[^1]: <https://code.videolan.org/videolan/libvlcpp/-/blob/master/subprojects/packagefiles/libvlc/declare-libvlc-dependency.patch?ref_type=heads>

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1 changed file:

- lib/meson.build


Changes:

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lib/meson.build
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@@ -30,3 +30,12 @@ libvlc = library('vlc',
     dependencies: [libvlccore_dep, m_lib, threads_dep],
     install: true
 )
+
+# Publicly exported dependency object. Used when libvlc is wrapped in a meson
+# subproject.
+libvlc_dep = declare_dependency(
+    link_with: libvlc,
+    include_directories: include_directories('../include'),
+)
+
+meson.override_dependency('libvlc', libvlc_dep)



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