[cmake-developers] Ninja generator on Windows

[Nicolas Desprès]

2012/2/2 Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>:
> On 2/2/2012 10:41 AM, Nicolas Desprès wrote:
>
>>
>> When you use scripts or file like link.txt you lose the power of the
>> special $in and $out variables or variable in general that are
>> expanded in the rule.
>>
>
> I am not sure what those are, must be a Ninja thing...
>

Yes they are Ninja specific things. You can have more information
here: http://martine.github.com/ninja/manual.html
in the "Tutorial-style syntax walkthrough > Rules" section.

> With windows, unless you have something like link.txt you are going to run
> into command line length issues.  There is no way to use response files in
> ninja?

There is a work in progress on this topic. See:
https://github.com/martine/ninja/issues/53

and the "rsp file proposal" thread in the mailing list.

-Nico