Meson will complain on linux that libraries are not compiled with -fpic but then ignore options to enable -fpic by default, also despite detecting this Meson will not add it on Linux. Because of this I have to only build static libraries. CMake might be on the table now.

meson.build

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ project('lel-guecs', 'cpp',
   version: '0.2.0',
   default_options: [
     'cpp_std=c++20',
-    'cpp_args=-D_GLIBCXX_DEBUG=1 -D_GLIBCXX_DEBUG_PEDANTIC=1'
+    'cpp_args=-D_GLIBCXX_DEBUG=1 -D_GLIBCXX_DEBUG_PEDANTIC=1',
   ])
 
 # use this for common options only for our executables
@@ -81,10 +81,9 @@ sources = [
 
 lel_guecs_inc = include_directories('include')
 
-lel_guecs_lib = both_libraries('lel-guecs',
+lel_guecs_lib = static_library('lel-guecs',
   sources,
-  version: '0.2.0',
-  soversion: '1',
+  pic: true,
   cpp_args: cpp_args,
   include_directories: lel_guecs_inc,
   override_options: exe_defaults,
@@ -105,7 +104,7 @@ executable('runtests', [
   link_args: link_args,
   override_options: exe_defaults,
   include_directories: lel_guecs_inc,
-  link_with: [lel_guecs_lib.get_static_lib()],
+  link_with: [lel_guecs_lib],
   dependencies: dependencies + [catch2])
 
 executable('calc', [
@@ -115,5 +114,5 @@ executable('calc', [
   link_args: link_args,
   override_options: exe_defaults,
   include_directories: lel_guecs_inc,
-  link_with: [lel_guecs_lib.get_static_lib()],
+  link_with: [lel_guecs_lib],
   dependencies: dependencies)