OK, if meson is something that one can’t avoid in the future, at least for gtk software, it would be nice if those people trying to build software from source would have some nice easy-to-follow examples.
I cloned jason-glib using this command:
git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/json-glib
Then I tried to build json-glib using these commands:
meson configure -Dprefix=$HOME/code/gimpdefault/install
meson _build .
ninja -C _build
meson test -C _build
ninja -C _build install
But I never got past the first command because meson decided I actually wasn’t in a meson build folder.
What are the specific commands for actually building json-glib using meson, and having it install in the indicated prefix? What did I do wrong?