[cmake-developers] Ninja generator on Windows

[Brad King]

On 2/1/2012 10:23 PM, Bill Hoffman wrote:
> On 2/1/2012 4:19 PM, Peter Kümmel wrote:
>> We can't use cmd. Maybe ninja could be fixed.
>
> If not, you could come up with something that uses CMake scripts.
>
> cmake -E foo.cmake
> ----foo.cmake----
> execute_process(....)
>
> Not ideal, but until ninja figures it out, cmake can become the shell for ninja.

That won't handle the && problem currently facing Ninja.

A cross-platform make tool like Ninja should abstract
the shell.

-Brad