diff --git a/LICENSE.build b/LICENSE.build
deleted file mode 100644
index 1a3d60c..0000000
--- a/LICENSE.build
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-Copyright (c) 2019 The Meson development team
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
-of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
-in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
-to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
-copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
-furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
-
-The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
-copies or substantial portions of the Software.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
-IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
-FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
-AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
-LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
-OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
-SOFTWARE.
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
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index 0000000..0021ae8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+project('xtl', 'cpp', version:'0.6.12', license:'BSD-3-Clause', default_options : ['warning_level=3', 'cpp_std=c++14'])
+
+json_dep = dependency('nlohmann_json',
+    version:'>=3.1.1',
+    fallback : ['nlohmann_json', 'nlohmann_json_dep'],
+    required: false)
+
+xtl_dep = declare_dependency(
+    include_directories:include_directories('include', is_system: true),
+    dependencies: [json_dep])
+
+extra_cflags = []
+
+# Workaround from mesonbuild/meson github issue 2550
+if meson.is_subproject()
+    install_dir = get_option('subproj_includedir')
+    extra_cflags += '-I' + get_option('prefix') / install_dir
+else
+    install_dir = get_option('includedir')
+endif
+
+install_subdir('include/xtl', install_dir: install_dir)
+
+pkgconfig = import('pkgconfig')
+pkgconfig.generate(name: meson.project_name(),
+    version: meson.project_version(),
+    description: 'Basic tools (containers, algorithms) used by other quantstack packages.',
+    extra_cflags: extra_cflags)
diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9aa6496
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meson_options.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+option('subproj_includedir',
+    type: 'string',
+    value: 'include',
+    description: 'Header file directory when built as subproject',
+    yield: true)
diff --git a/upstream.wrap b/upstream.wrap
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..54ce5e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/upstream.wrap
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+[wrap-file]
+directory=xtl-0.6.12
+
+source_url=https://github.com/xtensor-stack/xtl/archive/0.6.12.zip
+source_filename=xtl-0.6.12.zip
+source_hash=4ad3204312f72bce52951fb69acd1cd09e7f20f52c7e3b684140a4484acb5597