[cmake-developers] -GNinja on Windows

[Peter Kümmel]

On 07.06.2012 16:21, Bill Hoffman wrote:
> On 6/7/2012 10:08 AM, Peter Kuemmel wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I changed the windows dashboard on dash2win64 to use ninja master.
>>> Looks better now.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks, only 2 left.
>>
>> Do you have an idea why CTestTestTimeout doesn't work?
>>
> Not sure, might be a random thing.  Let's see what it does tomorrow.  It
> has failed 4 times in the last month...
>
> As for the depend stuff.  Sounds like what we need is the wrapper for cl.
>
> https://github.com/sgraham/ninja/commit/1d0908951d3a93e06cf3582a67eada0b942489de
>
>
> Then we could put the command and depfile stuff into the generated
> files.  This would not require a fix in upstream ninja.  It could all be
> done on the CMake side, and we could use ninja master.
>

Yes, I also think a solution on the cmake side make things much easier.

What about using cmake's build-in dependency parser. AFAIK there is one.
Could it be called by the command line?

> -Bill
>