Meson & ninja (its default build system) work the same way as Cmake & make:
$ meson setup <build-dir> # = `meson <build-dir>` or `cmake ..`
$ meson compile -C <build-dir> # = `ninja -C <build-dir>` or `make`
$ meson install -C <build-dir> # = `ninja -C <build-dir> install` or `make install`
$ ninja -C <build-dir> uninstall # if target `uninstall` exists