[cmake-developers] Ninja help

[Nicolas Desprès]

2012/2/15 Richard Wackerbarth <richard at nfsnet.org>

> Regretfully, testing the Ninja Generator for the nightly CMake dashboard
> is not as simple as would be desired.
>
> First, you have to bootstrap using a recent version of CMake (I am using
> my default "Unix Makefile" build for the nightly dashboard)
>

Yes, you have to build CMake twice. Once with the Unix Makefiles generator
and once with the Ninja generator. I don't think it is such a big deal. I
have done during all the time I spent developing the beginning of the Ninja
Generator.


> And then, on MacOSX 10.6, it fails on some of the tests .... :(
>

It is on my todo list to try to fix that bug on MacOSX 10.7, as soon as I
find the time... Can give a deadline unfortunately :(


>
> I will now try to add it to one of my FreeBSD builds.
>

That will give interesting feedback. Thx.

-Nico


>
>
> >
> >
> > 2012/2/15 Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>
> > 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.
> >
> > I was arguing in favor of this approach on the mailing list but some
> people came up with patches for the Python bootstrap script quickly and
> they have been applied. Ninja likes to be standalone as much as possible
> even if it requires Python and for development the Google Test and re2c.
> Also I think, since the Ninja generator was not available in CMake it was
> kind of a chicken and egg problem. Several forks on github already provides
> a CMakeLists.txt for Ninja. I think if some people are willing to maintain
> them (this include myself but my spare time is not that "responsive"
> unfortunately :-( ) and if the merge of the ninja generator in cmake is
> coming, Evan will accept a parallel build-system without any objections.
> >
> > --
> > Nicolas Desprès
> >
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Nicolas Desprès
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