Install CMake package config files with Meson, and add Meson options (#5587)

* Install CMake package config files with Meson, and add Meson options

Squashed onto develop from:
- Install CMake package config files with Meson
- meson: Indent code inside an if block
- meson: set a minimum Meson version
- meson: use `override_dependency()` to set dependencies
- meson: use `install_subdir` for headers
- meson: set the C++ standard to C++11
- meson: handle single header and multiheader the same way CMake does
- meson: add support for the GlobalUDLs option
- meson: add support for the ImplictConversions option
- Add meson information to FILES.md
- Complete the Meson options and match CMake's compile definitions
- Add the JSON_* definitions to the CMake pkg-config file
- Document the Meson options and check them in CI
- Fix the Meson CMake target for includedir or datadir outside the prefix
- Avoid //include in Meson-generated CMake target for prefix /
- Add DisableTupleReferenceConversion to Meson and the CMake pkg-config file
- Check in CI that Meson and pkg-config offer the CMake options
- Remove accidentally committed Python bytecode

Co-authored-by: Dylan Baker <dylan@pnwbakers.com>
Signed-off-by: Dylan Baker <dylan@pnwbakers.com>
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* Add the StrictBinaryUTF8 and DeleteDeprecatedFunctions Meson options

JSON_StrictBinaryUTF8 (#5741) and JSON_DeleteDeprecatedFunctions (#5755)
arrived with develop but were missing from the Meson build and the
pkg-config file, so check_build_options failed. Both Meson options
default to false and add JSON_STRICT_BINARY_UTF8=1 and
JSON_DELETE_DEPRECATED_FUNCTIONS=1 to the dependency, the pkg-config
file, and the generated CMake target; CMake's pkg-config file now
carries both definitions too. The ci_meson_install job sets and checks
them in its non-default install.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

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Signed-off-by: Dylan Baker <dylan@pnwbakers.com>
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Co-authored-by: Dylan Baker <dylan@pnwbakers.com>
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@@ -125,10 +125,24 @@ meson wrap install nlohmann_json
Please see the Meson project for any issues regarding the packaging.
The provided `meson.build` can also be used as an alternative to CMake for installing `nlohmann_json` system-wide in
which case a [pkg-config](pkg-config.md) file is installed. To use it, have your build system require the
`nlohmann_json` pkg-config dependency. In Meson, it is preferred to use the
[`dependency()`](https://mesonbuild.com/Reference-manual.html#dependency) object with a subproject fallback, rather than
using the subproject directly.
which case a [pkg-config](pkg-config.md) file and the CMake package config files are installed. To use it, have your build system require
the `nlohmann_json` pkg-config dependency, or use [`find_package(nlohmann_json)`](cmake.md#external) in CMake. In Meson,
it is preferred to use the [`dependency()`](https://mesonbuild.com/Reference-manual.html#dependency) object with a
subproject fallback, rather than using the subproject directly.
The options that change the library's configuration are available in Meson as well, named like the
[CMake options](cmake.md#cmake-options) without the `JSON_` prefix: `MultipleHeaders`, `GlobalUDLs`,
`ImplicitConversions`, `DisableEnumSerialization`, `DisableTupleReferenceConversion`, `Diagnostics`,
`Diagnostic_Positions`, `LegacyDiscardedValueComparison`, `StrictNulHandling`, `StrictBinaryUTF8`, and
`DeleteDeprecatedFunctions`. They have the same defaults as in CMake, except that
`MultipleHeaders` is `false`. Set them with `-D` when setting up the build, or with the subproject name as prefix when
the library is used as a subproject:
```shell
meson setup build -Dnlohmann_json:Diagnostics=true
```
The resulting compile definitions are part of the Meson dependency, the pkg-config file, and the CMake target.
??? example "Example: Wrap"