meson: wire up gitk and git-gui
Wire up both gitk and git-gui in Meson as subprojects. These two programs should be the last missing pieces for feature compatibility with our Makefile for distributors. Note that Meson expects subprojects to live in the "subprojects/" directory. Create symlinks to fulfill this requirement. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Patrick Steinhardt committed
Feb 4, 2026 at 09:38 UTC
1e3962c6b75f7131a236e35a0f7a3962102452ed
4 files changed
+20
meson.build
+14
index dd52efd1c8..e96953afec 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -239,7 +239,9 @@ git = find_program('git', dirs: program_path, native: true, required: false)
sed = find_program('sed', dirs: program_path, native: true)
shell = find_program('sh', dirs: program_path, native: true)
tar = find_program('tar', dirs: program_path, native: true)
+tclsh = find_program('tclsh', required: get_option('git_gui'), native: false)
time = find_program('time', dirs: program_path, required: get_option('benchmarks'))
+wish = find_program('wish', required: get_option('git_gui').enabled() or get_option('gitk').enabled(), native: false)
# Detect the target shell that is used by Git at runtime. Note that we prefer
# "/bin/sh" over a PATH-based lookup, which provides a working shell on most
@@ -2250,6 +2252,16 @@ configure_file(
configuration: build_options_config,
)
+gitk_option = get_option('gitk').disable_auto_if(not wish.found())
+if gitk_option.allowed()
+ subproject('gitk')
+endif
+
+git_gui_option = get_option('git_gui').disable_auto_if(not tclsh.found() or not wish.found())
+if git_gui_option.allowed()
+ subproject('git-gui')
+endif
+
# Development environments can be used via `meson devenv -C <builddir>`. This
# allows you to execute test scripts directly with the built Git version and
# puts the built version of Git in your PATH.
@@ -2276,6 +2288,8 @@ summary({
'curl': curl,
'expat': expat,
'gettext': intl,
+ 'gitk': gitk_option.allowed(),
+ 'git-gui': git_gui_option.allowed(),
'gitweb': gitweb_option.allowed(),
'iconv': iconv,
'pcre2': pcre2,
meson_options.txt
+4
index e0be260ae1..659cbb218f 100644
--- a/meson_options.txt
+++ b/meson_options.txt
@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ option('expat', type: 'feature', value: 'enabled',
description: 'Build helpers used to push to remotes with the HTTP transport.')
option('gettext', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
description: 'Build translation files.')
+option('gitk', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
+ description: 'Build the Gitk graphical repository browser. Requires Tcl/Tk.')
+option('git_gui', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
+ description: 'Build the git-gui graphical user interface for Git. Requires Tcl/Tk.')
option('gitweb', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
description: 'Build Git web interface. Requires Perl.')
option('iconv', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
subprojects/git-gui
+1
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..c6d917088b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/subprojects/git-gui
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../git-gui
\ No newline at end of file
subprojects/gitk
+1
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..b66ad18ae5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/subprojects/gitk
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../gitk-git
\ No newline at end of file