diff --git a/.github/workflows/cmake.yml b/.github/workflows/cmake.yml
index d616f2d51..5d6e16ec2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cmake.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cmake.yml
@@ -169,3 +169,24 @@ jobs:
       # Execute tests defined by the CMake configuration.
       # See https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/ctest.1.html for more detail
    #   run: ctest -C ${{env.BUILD_TYPE}}
+
+  meson:
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - name: Get dependencies
+      run: |
+        sudo apt-get -y update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade
+        sudo mk/linux/setupBuildDeps.sh
+        sudo apt-get install -y meson
+        # Using pip is only required if a newer version of meson is required
+        # sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip python3-setuptools # required for pip
+        # sudo -H python3 -m pip install meson ninja # version included w
+    - name: Build
+      run:  |
+        meson setup builddir
+        cd builddir
+        meson compile -v
+
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 2eedb3d3f..506d2b39c 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ project(
   'MegaGlest',
   ['c', 'cpp'],
   version: '3.13.0.999',
-  meson_version : '>= 0.56.0',
+  meson_version : '>= 0.53.2',
   default_options: ['warning_level=0']
   )
 
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ compiler = meson.get_compiler('cpp')
 #  ],
 #  language: 'cpp')
 
-subdir('source/shared_lib')  
+subdir('source/shared_lib')
 #subdir('source/glest_game')
 
 
diff --git a/source/shared_lib/meson.build b/source/shared_lib/meson.build
index 5397b53d5..8bbc77cff 100644
--- a/source/shared_lib/meson.build
+++ b/source/shared_lib/meson.build
@@ -39,7 +39,19 @@ dep_curl = dependency('libcurl')
 dep_sdl = dependency('sdl2')
 dep_x11 = dependency('x11')
 dep_openal = dependency('openal')
-dep_lua = dependency('lua')
+
+# Using simply 'lua' doesn't work on all Linux distributions
+# See https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/4553 for more info
+foreach name : ['lua', 'lua5.3', 'lua-5.3', 'lua53']
+    dep_lua = dependency(name, version: '>=5.3', required: false)
+    if dep_lua.found()
+        break
+    endif
+endforeach
+if not dep_lua.found()
+    error('Lua could not be found!')
+endif
+
 dep_cppunit = dependency('cppunit')
 dep_fribidi = dependency('fribidi')
 dep_glib = dependency('glib-2.0')
@@ -77,7 +89,7 @@ dep_glib = dependency('glib-2.0')
 #-lGLEW
 #-lminiupnpc
 #-lircclient
-#-lSDL2main 
+#-lSDL2main
 #-lfribidi
 #-lglib-2.0