build: execute wlroots subproject before finding deps

wlroots often requires dependencies more recent than Sway's.
Executing the wlroots subproject first will give Meson a chance to
find these newer dependencies, possibly via subprojects.

The subproject will override the "wlroots" dependency when executed,
so we don't need to use get_variable anymore.

References: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/pull/6498#issuecomment-1001746017

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index b226ac83..71183007 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -35,6 +35,15 @@ if is_freebsd
         add_project_arguments('-D_C11_SOURCE', language: 'c')
 endif
 
+# Execute the wlroots subproject, if any
+wlroots_version = ['>=0.16.0', '<0.17.0']
+subproject(
+        'wlroots',
+        default_options: ['examples=false'],
+        required: false,
+        version: wlroots_version,
+)
+
 jsonc = dependency('json-c', version: '>=0.13')
 pcre = dependency('libpcre')
 wayland_server = dependency('wayland-server', version: '>=1.20.0')
@@ -42,6 +51,7 @@ wayland_client = dependency('wayland-client')
 wayland_cursor = dependency('wayland-cursor')
 wayland_egl = dependency('wayland-egl')
 wayland_protos = dependency('wayland-protocols', version: '>=1.24')
+wlroots = dependency('wlroots', version: wlroots_version)
 xkbcommon = dependency('xkbcommon')
 cairo = dependency('cairo')
 pango = dependency('pango')
@@ -60,20 +70,6 @@ fish_comp = dependency('fish', required: false)
 math = cc.find_library('m')
 rt = cc.find_library('rt')
 
-# Try first to find wlroots as a subproject, then as a system dependency
-wlroots_version = ['>=0.16.0', '<0.17.0']
-wlroots_proj = subproject(
-        'wlroots',
-        default_options: ['examples=false'],
-        required: false,
-        version: wlroots_version,
-)
-if wlroots_proj.found()
-        wlroots = wlroots_proj.get_variable('wlroots')
-else
-        wlroots = dependency('wlroots', version: wlroots_version)
-endif
-
 wlroots_features = {
         'xwayland': false,
 }