[cmake-developers] Ninja help

[Bill Hoffman]

On 2/15/2012 11:20 AM, Nicolas Desprès wrote:
>
> For compiling and testing you can find all the information in the
> HACKING file.

Well, this is ugly:

------HACKING--------
Windows development on Windows:
- install mingw, msys, and python
- in the mingw shell, put Python in your path, and: python bootstrap.py
- to reconfigure, run 'python configure.py'
- remember to strip the resulting executable if size matters to you
- you'll need to rename ninja.exe into my-ninja.exe during development,
   otherwise ninja won't be able to overwrite itself when building
------HACKING--------

It would be really nice if ninja had a CMake build system with it for 
windows development.  It basically looks like a bunch of c++ files. 
Having to have python to build ninja is a pain for setting up a visual 
studio ninja dashboard.


-Bill