diff --git a/.github/workflows/linux-meson-builds.yml b/.github/workflows/linux-meson-builds.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9d9ef77354
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/linux-meson-builds.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+name: Linux builds (basic) using meson build system
+
+on: [push, pull_request]
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    name: meson ${{matrix.cxx}}, C++${{matrix.std}}, ${{matrix.build_type}}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        cxx:
+          - g++-11
+          - clang++-11
+        build_type: [debug, release]
+        std: [14, 17]
+        include:
+          - cxx: clang++-11
+            other_pkgs: clang-11
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+    - name: Prepare environment
+      run: sudo apt-get install -y meson ninja-build ${{matrix.other_pkgs}}
+
+    - name: Configure build
+      env:
+        CXX: ${{matrix.cxx}}
+        CXXFLAGS: -std=c++${{matrix.std}} ${{matrix.cxxflags}}
+      # Note: $GITHUB_WORKSPACE is distinct from ${{runner.workspace}}.
+      #       This is important
+      run: |
+        meson -Dbuildtype=${{matrix.build_type}} ${{runner.workspace}}/meson-build
+
+    - name: Build tests + lib
+      working-directory: ${{runner.workspace}}/meson-build
+      run: ninja
+
+    - name: Run tests
+      working-directory: ${{runner.workspace}}/meson-build
+      # Hardcode 2 cores we know are there
+      run: |
+        meson test --verbose
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index cafbd6b297..27f6bc0b30 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 *.build
+!meson.build
 *.pbxuser
 *.mode1v3
 *.ncb
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2922c62db3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#              Copyright Catch2 Authors
+# Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
+#   (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
+#        https://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
+
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSL-1.0
+
+project(
+  'catch2',
+  'cpp',
+  version : '3.1.0',
+  license: 'Boost 1.0')
+pkg = import('pkgconfig')
+cpp = meson.get_compiler('cpp')
+
+subdir('src/catch2')
+subdir('tests')
diff --git a/src/catch2/meson.build b/src/catch2/meson.build
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4bf0b568ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/catch2/meson.build
@@ -0,0 +1,347 @@
+#              Copyright Catch2 Authors
+# Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
+#   (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
+#        https://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
+
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSL-1.0
+
+conf_data = configuration_data()
+conf_data.set('CATCH_CONFIG_DEFAULT_REPORTER', 'console')
+conf_data.set('CATCH_CONFIG_CONSOLE_WIDTH', '80')
+
+configure_file(input: 'catch_user_config.hpp.in',
+               output: 'catch_user_config.hpp',
+               format: 'cmake@',
+               install_dir: get_option('includedir') / 'catch2',
+               configuration: conf_data)
+
+benchmark_headers = [
+  'benchmark/catch_benchmark.hpp',
+  'benchmark/catch_benchmark_all.hpp',
+  'benchmark/catch_chronometer.hpp',
+  'benchmark/catch_clock.hpp',
+  'benchmark/catch_constructor.hpp',
+  'benchmark/catch_environment.hpp',
+  'benchmark/catch_estimate.hpp',
+  'benchmark/catch_execution_plan.hpp',
+  'benchmark/catch_optimizer.hpp',
+  'benchmark/catch_outlier_classification.hpp',
+  'benchmark/catch_sample_analysis.hpp',
+  'benchmark/detail/catch_analyse.hpp',
+  'benchmark/detail/catch_benchmark_function.hpp',
+  'benchmark/detail/catch_complete_invoke.hpp',
+  'benchmark/detail/catch_estimate_clock.hpp',
+  'benchmark/detail/catch_measure.hpp',
+  'benchmark/detail/catch_repeat.hpp',
+  'benchmark/detail/catch_run_for_at_least.hpp',
+  'benchmark/detail/catch_stats.hpp',
+  'benchmark/detail/catch_timing.hpp'
+]
+
+benchmark_sources = [
+  'benchmark/catch_chronometer.cpp',
+  'benchmark/detail/catch_benchmark_function.cpp',
+  'benchmark/detail/catch_run_for_at_least.cpp',
+  'benchmark/detail/catch_stats.cpp',
+]
+
+internal_headers = [
+  'catch_all.hpp',
+  'matchers/catch_matchers_all.hpp',
+  'generators/catch_generators_all.hpp',
+  'interfaces/catch_interfaces_all.hpp',
+  'matchers/internal/catch_matchers_impl.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_case_insensitive_comparisons.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_console_width.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_container_nonmembers.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_noncopyable.hpp',
+  'catch_approx.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_assertion_handler.hpp',
+  'catch_assertion_info.hpp',
+  'catch_assertion_result.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_test_macro_impl.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_test_failure_exception.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_case_sensitive.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_clara.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_commandline.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_source_line_info.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_compiler_capabilities.hpp',
+  'catch_config.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_config_android_logwrite.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_config_counter.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_config_uncaught_exceptions.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_config_wchar.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_console_colour.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_context.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_debug_console.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_debugger.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_decomposer.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_enforce.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_enum_values_registry.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_errno_guard.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_exception_translator_registry.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_fatal_condition_handler.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_floating_point_helpers.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_istream.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_unique_name.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_sharding.hpp',
+  'generators/catch_generator_exception.hpp',
+  'generators/catch_generators.hpp',
+  'generators/catch_generators_adapters.hpp',
+  'generators/catch_generators_random.hpp',
+  'generators/catch_generators_range.hpp',
+  'interfaces/catch_interfaces_capture.hpp',
+  'interfaces/catch_interfaces_config.hpp',
+  'interfaces/catch_interfaces_enum_values_registry.hpp',
+  'interfaces/catch_interfaces_exception.hpp',
+  'interfaces/catch_interfaces_generatortracker.hpp',
+  'interfaces/catch_interfaces_registry_hub.hpp',
+  'interfaces/catch_interfaces_reporter.hpp',
+  'interfaces/catch_interfaces_reporter_factory.hpp',
+  'interfaces/catch_interfaces_reporter_registry.hpp',
+  'interfaces/catch_interfaces_tag_alias_registry.hpp',
+  'interfaces/catch_interfaces_testcase.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_lazy_expr.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_leak_detector.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_list.hpp',
+  'matchers/catch_matchers.hpp',
+  'matchers/catch_matchers_container_properties.hpp',
+  'matchers/catch_matchers_contains.hpp',
+  'matchers/catch_matchers_exception.hpp',
+  'matchers/catch_matchers_floating_point.hpp',
+  'matchers/catch_matchers_predicate.hpp',
+  'matchers/catch_matchers_quantifiers.hpp',
+  'matchers/catch_matchers_string.hpp',
+  'matchers/catch_matchers_templated.hpp',
+  'matchers/catch_matchers_vector.hpp',
+  'catch_message.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_message_info.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_meta.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_move_and_forward.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_optional.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_output_redirect.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_platform.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_polyfills.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_preprocessor.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_preprocessor_remove_parens.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_random_number_generator.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_random_seed_generation.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_reporter_registry.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_reporter_spec_parser.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_result_type.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_run_context.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_section.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_stdstreams.hpp',
+  'catch_section_info.hpp',
+  'catch_session.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_singletons.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_startup_exception_registry.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_reusable_string_stream.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_stream_end_stop.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_string_manip.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_stringref.hpp',
+  'catch_tag_alias.hpp',
+  'catch_get_random_seed.hpp',
+  'catch_tag_alias_autoregistrar.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_tag_alias_registry.hpp',
+  'catch_test_case_info.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_test_case_registry_impl.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_test_case_tracker.hpp',
+  'catch_template_test_macros.hpp',
+  'catch_test_macros.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_template_test_registry.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_test_registry.hpp',
+  'catch_test_spec.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_test_spec_parser.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_textflow.hpp',
+  'catch_timer.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_to_string.hpp',
+  'catch_tostring.hpp',
+  'catch_totals.hpp',
+  'catch_translate_exception.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_uncaught_exceptions.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_unique_ptr.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_void_type.hpp',
+  'catch_version.hpp',
+  'catch_version_macros.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_wildcard_pattern.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_windows_h_proxy.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_xmlwriter.hpp',
+  'internal/catch_test_case_info_hasher.hpp'
+]
+
+internal_sources = [
+  'catch_approx.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_assertion_handler.cpp',
+  'catch_assertion_result.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_clara.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_commandline.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_source_line_info.cpp',
+  'catch_config.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_case_insensitive_comparisons.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_console_colour.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_context.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_debug_console.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_debugger.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_enforce.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_enum_values_registry.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_exception_translator_registry.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_fatal_condition_handler.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_floating_point_helpers.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_istream.cpp',
+  'interfaces/catch_interfaces_generatortracker.cpp',
+  'interfaces/catch_interfaces_reporter.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_list.cpp',
+  'matchers/catch_matchers_floating_point.cpp',
+  'matchers/catch_matchers_quantifiers.cpp',
+  'matchers/catch_matchers_string.cpp',
+  'matchers/catch_matchers_templated.cpp',
+  'catch_message.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_output_redirect.cpp',
+  'catch_registry_hub.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_random_number_generator.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_random_seed_generation.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_reporter_registry.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_reporter_spec_parser.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_result_type.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_run_context.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_section.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_stdstreams.cpp',
+  'catch_session.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_singletons.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_reusable_string_stream.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_stringref.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_string_manip.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_tag_alias_registry.cpp',
+  'catch_test_case_info.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_test_case_registry_impl.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_test_case_tracker.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_test_registry.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_textflow.cpp',
+  'catch_test_spec.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_test_spec_parser.cpp',
+  'catch_timer.cpp',
+  'catch_tostring.cpp',
+  'catch_totals.cpp',
+  'catch_version.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_wildcard_pattern.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_xmlwriter.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_test_case_info_hasher.cpp',
+  'generators/catch_generators_random.cpp',
+  'generators/catch_generator_exception.cpp',
+  'generators/catch_generators.cpp',
+  'matchers/catch_matchers.cpp',
+  'matchers/catch_matchers_container_properties.cpp',
+  'matchers/catch_matchers_exception.cpp',
+  'matchers/catch_matchers_predicate.cpp',
+  'matchers/internal/catch_matchers_impl.cpp',
+  'catch_tag_alias_autoregistrar.cpp',
+  'catch_get_random_seed.cpp',  
+  'internal/catch_decomposer.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_errno_guard.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_lazy_expr.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_leak_detector.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_message_info.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_polyfills.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_startup_exception_registry.cpp',
+  'internal/catch_uncaught_exceptions.cpp',
+  'interfaces/catch_interfaces_capture.cpp',
+  'interfaces/catch_interfaces_config.cpp',
+  'interfaces/catch_interfaces_exception.cpp',
+  'interfaces/catch_interfaces_registry_hub.cpp',
+  'interfaces/catch_interfaces_reporter_factory.cpp',
+  'interfaces/catch_interfaces_reporter_registry.cpp',
+  'interfaces/catch_interfaces_testcase.cpp',
+]
+
+reporter_headers = [
+  'reporters/catch_reporters_all.hpp',
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_automake.hpp',
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_common_base.hpp',
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_compact.hpp',
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_console.hpp',
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_cumulative_base.hpp',
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_event_listener.hpp',
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_helpers.hpp',
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_junit.hpp',
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_multi.hpp',
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_registrars.hpp',
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_sonarqube.hpp',
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_streaming_base.hpp',
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_tap.hpp',
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_teamcity.hpp',
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_xml.hpp'
+]
+
+reporter_sources = [
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_automake.cpp',
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_common_base.cpp',
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_compact.cpp',
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_console.cpp',
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_cumulative_base.cpp',
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_event_listener.cpp',
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_helpers.cpp',
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_junit.cpp',
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_multi.cpp',
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_registrars.cpp',
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_sonarqube.cpp',
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_streaming_base.cpp',
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_tap.cpp',
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_teamcity.cpp',
+  'reporters/catch_reporter_xml.cpp',
+]
+
+headers = benchmark_headers + internal_headers + reporter_headers
+sources = benchmark_sources + internal_sources + reporter_sources
+
+# The headers must be installed with their full paths, which meson
+# v0.63 supports using `preserve_path` for `install_headers`. We'd
+# like to be compatible with Debian 11 (current stable) which has
+# meson v0.56.2. Instead, let's use the technique from
+# https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/14 with some tweaks to
+# make it compatible with newer meson.
+include_subdir = 'catch2'
+foreach file : headers
+    file_path = file.split('/')
+
+    folder = ''
+    foreach path : file_path
+        if path != file_path[-1]
+            folder = folder / path
+        endif
+    endforeach
+
+    install_headers(file, subdir: join_paths(include_subdir, folder))
+endforeach
+
+catch2 = static_library(
+  'Catch2',
+  sources,
+  include_directories : '..',
+  dependencies : [],
+  install : true)
+
+pkg.generate(
+  filebase: 'catch2',
+  name : 'Catch2',
+  libraries : catch2,
+  version : meson.project_version(),
+  description : 'A modern, C++-native, test framework for C++14 and above',
+  url: 'https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2',
+)
+
+catch2_with_main = static_library(
+  'Catch2Main',
+  [ 'internal/catch_main.cpp' ],
+  include_directories : '..',
+  dependencies : [],
+  install : true)
+
+pkg.generate(
+  filebase : 'catch2-with-main',
+  name : 'Catch2-With-Main',
+  libraries : catch2_with_main,
+  version : meson.project_version(),
+  description : 'A modern, C++-native, test framework for C++14 and above (links in default main)',
+  requires : 'catch2 = ' + meson.project_version()
+)
diff --git a/tests/meson.build b/tests/meson.build
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3e4fc9cb9b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/meson.build
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+#              Copyright Catch2 Authors
+# Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
+#   (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
+#        https://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
+
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSL-1.0
+
+# define the sources of the self test
+# Please keep these ordered alphabetically
+self_test_sources = [
+  'SelfTest/TestRegistrations.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/IntrospectiveTests/Clara.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/IntrospectiveTests/CmdLine.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/IntrospectiveTests/CmdLineHelpers.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/IntrospectiveTests/ColourImpl.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/IntrospectiveTests/Details.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/IntrospectiveTests/FloatingPoint.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/IntrospectiveTests/GeneratorsImpl.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/IntrospectiveTests/InternalBenchmark.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/IntrospectiveTests/PartTracker.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/IntrospectiveTests/RandomNumberGeneration.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/IntrospectiveTests/Reporters.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/IntrospectiveTests/Tag.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/IntrospectiveTests/TestCaseInfoHasher.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/IntrospectiveTests/TestSpecParser.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/IntrospectiveTests/TextFlow.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/IntrospectiveTests/Sharding.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/IntrospectiveTests/Stream.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/IntrospectiveTests/String.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/IntrospectiveTests/StringManip.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/IntrospectiveTests/Xml.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/IntrospectiveTests/ToString.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/IntrospectiveTests/UniquePtr.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/TimingTests/Sleep.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/UsageTests/Approx.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/UsageTests/BDD.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/UsageTests/Benchmark.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/UsageTests/Class.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/UsageTests/Compilation.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/UsageTests/Condition.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/UsageTests/Decomposition.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/UsageTests/EnumToString.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/UsageTests/Exception.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/UsageTests/Generators.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/UsageTests/Message.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/UsageTests/Misc.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/UsageTests/ToStringByte.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/UsageTests/ToStringChrono.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/UsageTests/ToStringGeneral.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/UsageTests/ToStringOptional.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/UsageTests/ToStringPair.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/UsageTests/ToStringTuple.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/UsageTests/ToStringVariant.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/UsageTests/ToStringVector.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/UsageTests/ToStringWhich.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/UsageTests/Tricky.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/UsageTests/VariadicMacros.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/UsageTests/MatchersRanges.tests.cpp',
+  'SelfTest/UsageTests/Matchers.tests.cpp'
+]
+
+# This isn't as good as the CMake tests, but it proves that we've
+# actually put something in the library files.
+self_test = executable(
+  'self_test',
+  self_test_sources,
+  include_directories : '../src',
+  link_with : [ catch2_with_main, catch2 ])
+
+test('SelfTest', self_test)