diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
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+project('ratbagd', 'c',
+	version : '0.2',
+	license : 'MIT/Expat',
+	meson_version : '>= 0.40.0',
+	default_options : [ 'c_std=gnu99' ])
+
+ratbagd_version = meson.project_version().split('.')
+
+# Compiler setup
+cc = meson.get_compiler('c')
+cflags = [
+	'-pipe',
+	'-Wall',
+	'-Wextra',
+	'-Wno-inline',
+	'-Wundef',
+	'-Wformat=2',
+	'-Wformat-security',
+	'-Wformat-nonliteral',
+	'-Wlogical-op',
+	'-Wsign-compare',
+	'-Wmissing-include-dirs',
+	'-Wold-style-definition',
+	'-Wpointer-arith',
+	'-Winit-self',
+	'-Wdeclaration-after-statement',
+	'-Wfloat-equal',
+	'-Wsuggest-attribute=noreturn',
+	'-Wmissing-prototypes',
+	'-Wstrict-prototypes',
+	'-Wredundant-decls',
+	'-Wmissing-declarations',
+	'-Wmissing-noreturn',
+	'-Wendif-labels',
+	'-Wstrict-aliasing=2',
+	'-Wwrite-strings',
+	'-Wno-long-long',
+	'-Wno-overlength-strings',
+	'-Wno-unused-parameter',
+	'-Wno-missing-field-initializers',
+	'-Wno-unused-result',
+	'-Werror=overflow',
+	'-Wdate-time',
+	'-Wnested-externs',
+	'-ffast-math',
+	'-fno-common',
+	'-fdiagnostics-show-option',
+	'-fno-strict-aliasing',
+	'-fvisibility=hidden',
+	'-ffunction-sections',
+	'-fdata-sections',
+	'-fstack-protector',
+	'-fstack-protector-strong',
+	'-fPIE',
+	'--param=ssp-buffer-size=4'
+]
+add_project_arguments(cflags, language: 'c')
+add_project_arguments('-D_GNU_SOURCE', language : 'c')
+
+# Initialize config.h, to be added to in the various options below, config.h
+# is generated at the end of this file
+config_h = configuration_data()
+
+# dependencies
+pkgconfig = import('pkgconfig')
+dep_udev = dependency('libudev')
+dep_systemd = dependency('libsystemd', version : '>=227')
+dep_libratbag = dependency('libratbag', version : '>= 0.6')
+dep_lm = cc.find_library('m')
+
+libratbag_data_dir = dep_libratbag.get_pkgconfig_variable('pkgdatadir')
+config_h.set_quoted('LIBRATBAG_DATA_DIR', libratbag_data_dir)
+
+#### libshared.a ####
+src_libshared = [
+	'src/shared-macro.h',
+	'src/shared-rbtree.h',
+	'src/shared-rbtree.c',
+]
+
+deps_libshared = [
+	dep_lm,
+]
+
+lib_libshared = static_library('shared',
+	src_libshared,
+	dependencies : deps_libshared
+)
+dep_libshared = declare_dependency(link_with: lib_libshared)
+
+#### ratbagd ####
+src_ratbagd = [
+	'src/ratbagd.h',
+	'src/ratbagd.c',
+	'src/ratbagd-button.c',
+	'src/ratbagd-device.c',
+	'src/ratbagd-profile.c',
+	'src/ratbagd-resolution.c'
+]
+
+deps_ratbagd = [
+	dep_udev,
+	dep_systemd,
+	dep_libratbag,
+	dep_libshared,
+]
+
+executable('ratbagd',
+	   src_ratbagd,
+	   dependencies : deps_ratbagd,
+	   include_directories : include_directories('src'),
+	   install : true,
+)
+
+install_man('doc/ratbagd.8')
+
+#### unit file ####
+unitdir = get_option('systemd-unit-dir')
+if unitdir == ''
+	unitdir = get_option('libdir') + '/systemd/system'
+endif
+
+config_bindir = configuration_data()
+config_bindir.set('bindir', get_option('bindir'))
+
+install_data('ratbagd.service.in',
+	     configuration : config_bindir,
+	     install_dir : unitdir)
+
+dbusdir = get_option('dbus-root-dir')
+if dbusdir == ''
+	dbusdir = get_option('datadir') + '/dbus-1'
+endif
+
+install_data('dbus/org.freedesktop.ratbag1.service.in',
+	     configuration : config_bindir,
+	     install_dir : dbusdir + '/system-services')
+install_data('dbus/org.freedesktop.ratbag1.conf',
+	     configuration : config_bindir,
+	     install_dir : dbusdir + '/system.d')
+
+#### python bindings ####
+
+py3_mod = import('python3')
+py3 = py3_mod.find_python()
+py3_dep = dependency('python3', required : true)
+
+pysrc_ratbagd =  [ 'python/ratbagd/__init__.py' ]
+
+py3_purelib = py3_mod.sysconfig_path('purelib')
+
+install_data(pysrc_ratbagd,
+	     install_dir : py3_purelib + '/ratbagd')
+
+config_ratbagctl = configuration_data()
+config_ratbagctl.set('version', meson.project_version())
+configure_file(input : 'python/ratbagctl.in',
+	       output : 'ratbagctl',
+	       configuration : config_ratbagctl,
+	       install_dir : get_option('bindir'))
+
+install_man('doc/ratbagctl.1')
+
+#### output files ####
+configure_file(output: 'config.h', install: false, configuration: config_h)
diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
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+option('systemd-unit-dir',
+	type : 'string',
+	default : '',
+	description : 'systemd unit directory [default=$libdir/systemd/system]')
+
+option('dbus-root-dir',
+	type : 'string',
+	default : '',
+	description : 'dbus service directory [default=$datadir/dbus-1]')
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