meson.build fails to recognize libmutter-3.so

[SapiensAnatis]

Operating System: e.g. Arch Linux (rolling release)
Budgie version: master at time of writing: 00b0fe4

The issue encountered

When attempting to build budgie-desktop from source, the meson command only looks for libmutter-2, libmutter-1, libmutter-0 and libmutter. On Arch, with mutter 3.30:

$ pacman -Q mutter
> mutter 3.30.0+13+g2fb3db765-1

In the build guide in the wiki it says only mutter >= 3.32 is required, which should mean that I can build it. I've tried adding a copy-paste section to meson.build in src/wm/ to search for libmutter-3.so (which is on my system, I've checked) but it doesn't seem to change anything

Steps to reproduce the issue

• Have mutter 3.30
• Clone git repo and respective submodules
• Attempt to run meson build --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
• Fails

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I get that this is probably a case where the issue lies between the keyboard and the chair (i.e. me) but even if it is true that budgie cannot yet be compiled against libmutter-3, it'd be nice for you to add a note in the build wiki saying that this is the case. Thank you!

[JockeTF]

See pull request #1523 for this. But, I'd recommend the following branch:

https://github.com/UbuntuBudgie/budgie-desktop/tree/mutter330reduxII

[fossfreedom]

@JockeTF

I'll do a PR shortly - kind of got stuck on a couple of issues - so the PR will be just a reference point - to be ignored/cherry-picked etc etc.

[JoshStrobl]

We don't support Mutter 3.30 at this moment in time. Given the patch hasn't addressed issues I raised, it'll be something I tackle for 10.5.1.