How to install Meson on Windows without Administrator privileges?

[Demonese]

I'm happy to recommend Meson to my friends, but unfortunately, the school's computer usually does not provide Windows Administrator privileges.

[eli-schwartz]

The prebuilt Meson redistributable installer mainly exists to solve the problem of explaining to people who don't know python, how to use python environment installers, like pip.

https://mesonbuild.com/Getting-meson.html describes the other (non-MSI) options, which mainly mean pip install meson. :P

However I think you should be able to pass a flag to the Windows MSI installer service thingy (msiexec) to install as a non-admin. Also, contributions welcome to make the installer more flexible -- we are boring and use WiX, so it should be easy. :) It really is just bundling up a standalone meson.exe and ninja.exe into a one-click installer, nothing intrinsically should force admin privileges, if we are doing so anyway I'd be happy to treat that as a bug to be fixed.

I do know both chocolatey and scoop have meson listed as available packages, for whatever that may be worth. ;)