Didn't know if you were asking but Meson is used to build libvips from source. It took a couple days for me to get up to speed on it but wasn't difficult to understand. https://mesonbuild.com/ https://www.libvips.org/install.html As for imagemagick, I just couldn't get the speed I wanted out of it. This is partly due to the fact that the system I was building allows many different image types. I want to say gifs were almost always an issue but I'm reaching here. Been a bit for me as well.