[cmake-developers] -GNinja on Windows

[Peter Kümmel]

On 13.06.2012 15:16, Bill Hoffman wrote:
> On 6/12/2012 7:08 PM, Peter Kümmel wrote:
>>
>> So we don't need any ninja patches, neither for msvc nor for mingw.
>> All tests pass with ninja master.
> WOW!
>
> Congrats, this is awesome.  The windows ninja dashboard is totally green
> today.  Thanks for all the hard work, this is really great stuff.
>
>
> It is now the official speed daemon for windows builds.  Look at this
> machine:
>
> http://open.cdash.org/index.php?project=CMake&date=2012-06-13&filtercount=1&showfilters=1&field1=site/string&compare1=63&value1=dash2win64
>

Nice link, especially when "Advanced View" is clicked.

> ninja wins in build and test time over jom, nmake, and gmake!

And configuring takes longer than building ;)

But ninja automatically uses -j n+2 (n number of processors)
Are the other build also multi threaded?

>
>
> The only thing left for ninja now is the OSX framework and bundle stuff.
>    Also, we have to figure out how to get it to fortran 90 module depend
> stuff.  But, windows is now done!
>
> I guess I also need to setup a ninja mingw dashboard.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> -Bill
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