README.md

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Meson LSP

An experimental, WIP implementation of a meson language server

Dependencies

• glib-2.0
• gobject-2.0
• jsonrpc-glib-1.0
• gee-0.8
• gio-unix-2.0
• gio-2.0
• vala

Installation

Only GNOME-Builder is supported at the moment.

meson build
cd build&&ninja install&&cd ..

Install the meson plugin from here

What works?

• Navigating by clicking on variables
• List symbols in file
• Include subdirectories
• Hovering works for the builtin objects
• Hovering over options gives a description of it

Status

Issues:

• Parsing big projects (E.g. mesa) leads to stuttering
• After some time it disconnects from GNOME-Builder (Or the other way round)

Supported software

• GNOME Builder (See https://github.com/JCWasmx86/GNOME-Builder-Plugins/)

TODO-List

• Hover (Partially)
• Fix memory leaks
• Add documentation for hover
• Autocompletion
• Performance improvements
• Type deduction/linting (WIP)
• Make it live together with Vala-Language-Server (Will work in GTK4-Port of GNOME-Builder)
• Improve code quality
• Semantic highlighting

Legal

• Everything I wrote is GPLv3 licensed
• Parser from https://github.com/bearcove/tree-sitter-meson (MIT) with my own changes (JCWasmx86/tree-sitter-meson)
• Some parts were copied verbatim from src/protocol.vala and src/server.vala from https://github.com/vala-lang/vala-language-server (LGPLv2.1)
• docs/methods.txt and docs/objects.txt contain text from the meson documentation mesonbuild.com, (CC BY-SA 4.0)
• parser/src is code copied verbatim from tree-sitter/tree-sitter (MIT)