Overview of Files and Directories

The main app directory contains the following files and directories. Those marked with a trailing slash are directories.

Name	Description
build-aux/	Helper scripts for the build system.
com.example.app_resources.json	Manifest file for deployment.
data/	Data files for the installed application.
meson.build	The main build file.
src/	Source files for the application.

The first four of these are concerned with building and packaging the application, or contain data files that are not part of the application itself.

Sources and Resources

The src directory is where we will start to explore how the application is put together. It contains a collection of files and an images directory.

Name	Description
app_resources.gresource.xml	Resource description file.
app-resources.in	Template executable file.
images/	Images that will be stored in the resource bundle.
__init__.py	Python package file.
main.py	The main module for the application.
meson.build	The build file for this directory.

The meson.build file describes the build rules for the program – we will look at these later in Building the Application.

Next, we will look at the app_resources.gresource.xml file and how resources are described.