meson.build:154:0: ERROR: Native dependency 'goa-1.0' not found

[ponarunkumar]

The meson build errored out with goa-1.0 not found.
/gnome-todo$ meson builddir
The Meson build system
Version: 0.46.1
Source dir: /home/appdev/gnomelab/gnome-todo
Build dir: /home/appdev/gnomelab/gnome-todo/builddir
Build type: native build
Project name: gnome-todo
Native C compiler: cc (gcc 5.4.0 "cc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 5.4.0 20160609")
Build machine cpu family: x86
Build machine cpu: i686
Has header "dlfcn.h": YES
Has header "inttypes.h": YES
Has header "locale.h": YES
Has header "memory.h": YES
Has header "stdint.h": YES
Has header "stdlib.h": YES
Has header "strings.h": YES
Has header "string.h": YES
Has header "sys/stat.h": YES
Has header "sys/types.h": YES
Has header "unistd.h": YES
Checking for function "dcgettext": YES
Checking for function "gettext": YES
Checking for function "iconv": YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -fno-strict-aliasing: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wcast-align: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wdeclaration-after-statement: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wformat=2: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Winit-self: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Winline: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wmissing-declarations: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wmissing-format-attribute: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wmissing-include-dirs: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wmissing-noreturn: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wmissing-prototypes: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wnested-externs: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wno-error=unused-parameter -Werror=unused-parameter: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wno-error=missing-field-initializers -Werror=missing-field-initializers: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wmissing-field-initializers: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wno-unused-parameter -Wunused-parameter: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wold-style-definition: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wpacked: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wredundant-decls: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wshadow: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wstrict-prototypes: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wswitch-enum: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wundef: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wunused-but-set-variable: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wwrite-strings: YES
Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (0.29.1)
Native dependency glib-2.0 found: YES 2.57.1
Native dependency gtk+-3.0 found: YES 3.22.0
Native dependency gio-2.0 found: YES 2.57.1
Native dependency gmodule-export-2.0 found: YES 2.57.1