[cmake-developers] -GNinja on Windows

[Bill Hoffman]

On 6/7/2012 5:46 PM, Peter Kümmel wrote:
> Guessing configuration NoConfig
> Start 82: BuildDepends
> 1/1 Test #82: BuildDepends ..................... Passed 5.06 sec
>
> ;)
>
> Bill, this was a great idea with cldeps!
>
> Only small patches for cldeps and cmake and we now have dependency
> tracking for msvc.
>
Cool, nice work!

> A cldeps binary is here:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/cmakescript/files/cldeps.exe
>
> Code is in misc/ also a CMakeLists.txt
> https://github.com/syntheticpp/ninja/tree/cldeps
>
> CMake:
> http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=stage/cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=1d40729eaa35dd643efdf5e793e6a541e890f33a
>
>
>
> The only thing to do is to figure out the prefix of /showIncludes, it's
> hard coded atm:
> https://github.com/syntheticpp/ninja/blob/cldeps/misc/cldeps.cc#L150
> and to pass it to cldeps.
>

Interesting problem...   Maybe just look for the second : or something 
like that.

I am thinking we should port cldeps to use the cmake cmSystemtools so 
that we can just build/ship the whole binary with cmake itself. Make it 
use CMakeLib instead of util from ninja.

-Bill