How to find dependency with config-tool method in meson-build?

I need to configure geos dependency in a meson project. geos provide a geos-config program, but doesn't provide pkg-config file in rocky linux.

According to the documentation, meson dependency function provide a method argument which can be config-tool.

I have tried

geos_dep = dependency('geos', method: 'config-tool')

But that doesn't work:

Run-time dependency geos found: NO

Nothing more in meson-log.txt

I need to configure geos dependency in a meson project. geos provide a geos-config program, but doesn't provide pkg-config file in rocky linux.

According to the documentation, meson dependency function provide a method argument which can be config-tool.

I have tried

geos_dep = dependency('geos', method: 'config-tool')

But that doesn't work:

Run-time dependency geos found: NO

Nothing more in meson-log.txt

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config-tool is used by a hardcoded list of supported tools: https://mesonbuild/Dependencies.html#dependencies-with-custom-lookup-functionality

So you will have to manually use the tool with run_command() and parse its output.

You could also request/add this tool to meson itself.