Probably a stupid question about dependencies with meson

[Lotagoua]

Hi, I am trying to build rnote using meson but i don't now and to update the dependencies(I am on debian). I have look around on internet but i didn't find anything(and didn't understand). I tried using "meson wrap" but i guess sub-projects is not a dependencies(as the name suggest)... I tried using "cargo update" and messing with cargo.toml but this don't really make any sens. And finally a tried installing the missing dependency directly but i couldn't find which packet to install...

PS: And I don't even now if i should be posting this here, I never really used GitHub before.
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[flxzt]

Hey, check out the build with meson section in the build documentation. If you follow these steps, you should be able to build the app successfully.
Note that you probably need to be on Debian 13 (trixie) because of version requirements for system dependencies

[Lotagoua]

Thanks for answering so quickly!!!! I followed these steps but I'm on Debian 12. but is there any thing I can do to get the right version on Debian 12. I don't really understand why it wouldn't be possible.

[flxzt]

What is the output of the meson setup step? Does meson complain about incompatible versions or not?

[Lotagoua]

yes : dependency glib-2.0 found: NO found 2.74.6 but need: '>= 2.76'.

if i change the meson.build file to accept the version 2.74, i get the same error for the gio dependency. and so on.

[flxzt]

well, the version requirement is there for a reason, the application relies on features only provided by recent versions.
Unfortunately you either need to build these needed dependencies manually or upgrade to trixie (which will be released later this year)

[Lotagoua]

ok. thank you for the help!!