How to get newer version of Meson?

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How do I get meson 1.1.0 or newer in KDE SDK?
I tried using SDK version 6.5, but meson version is report as 0.63.3.

app-id: io.github.app.App
runtime: org.kde.Platform
sdk: org.kde.Sdk
base-version: '6.5'
runtime-version: '6.5'
command: run.sh
finish-args:
  - --share=ipc
  - --socket=x11
  - --device=dri
modules:
  - name: meson-test
    buildsystem: simple
    build-commands:
      - meson --version
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I found that I can just install newer version of meson instead.


  - name: meson
    buildsystem: simple
    build-commands:
      - python3 setup.py build
      - python3 setup.py install --prefix=/app --root=/
    sources:
      - type: git
        url: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson.git
        tag: '1.1.1'
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I had the same question, thanks for posting a solution!

Do you know how this could be achieved with pip instead of python3 setup.py ... though? I tried with the following build-commands, but it doesn’t work:

- pip install --upgrade --verbose --exists-action=i --no-index --find-links="file://${PWD}" --prefix=${FLATPAK_DEST} --no-build-isolation meson

The original location is not writeable:

OSError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system: '/usr/bin/meson'