criterion fails to build with tcc (Tiny C Compiler) or with owcc (Open Watcom)

[winspool]

I wanted to try criterion, but the broken meson build system
accepts only a few compiler.

CC=tcc CFLAGS="-v" meson setup

../meson.build:1:0: ERROR: Unknown compiler(s): [['tcc']]

Next try:

CC=owcc CFLAGS="-v -blinux -I$WATCOM/lh" meson setup

../meson.build:1:0: ERROR: Unknown compiler(s): [['owcc']]

I didn't even try cross compilation with arm64-tcc, x86_64-win32-tcc, riscv64-tcc
or variants with OpenWatcom like owcc -bnt

This was my first project with depends on "meson", and my user experience is: "unusable".

Is there a way to build "criterion" with autotools?
(I can install other build systems on my local machine,
but on the remote machines, this is not easy possible / acceptable).

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Regards ... Detlef