[cmake-developers] Ninja windows

[Bill Hoffman]

On 3/6/2012 6:17 PM, Peter Kümmel wrote:

>
> The following tests FAILED:
> 78 - CustomCommandWorkingDirectory (Failed)
> 80 - BuildDepends (Failed)
> 98 - QtAutomoc (Failed)
> 116 - Plugin (Failed)
> 123 - ModuleDefinition (Failed)
> 155 - CTestTestStopTime (Failed)
> Errors while running CTest
>
>
> But it builds CMake. On more complex projects RC file rules is broken
> ($FLAGS/$DEFINES are missing).
>
> A ninja binary is here, also packaged with the installer:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/cmakescript/files/
> (git at github.com:syntheticpp/ninja.git, token-splitter branch)
>

OK, I grabbed the binary from here:
  https://sourceforge.net/projects/cmakescript/files/

Sadly, the curl abilities of cmake are not up to working with 
sourceforge download link redirection fu...

Anyway, I did get the ninja.exe.  I was sort of able to bootstrap cmake.

I did this:

1. enable ninja on windows:
diff --git a/Source/CMakeLists.txt b/Source/CMakeLists.txt
index eb4327c..eec3ad7 100644
--- a/Source/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Source/CMakeLists.txt
-if(NOT WIN32)
+#if(NOT WIN32)
...
-endif()
+#endif()

2. build a cmake on windows with gmake
3. configure and build a cmake on windows with ninja.
   - configure worked
   - the build failed because the ninja generator did not create the bin 
directory in build tree.

[413/430] Building CXX object 
Source\CMakeFiles\cpack.dir\CPack\cpack.cxx.obj
FAILED: C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1.0\VC\bin\cl.exe   /nologo /DWIN32 
/D_WINDOWS /W3 /Zm1000 /EHsc /GR /D_DEBUG /MDd /Zi /Ob0 /Od /RTC1 
-IUtilities -I"C:\Users\hoffman\Work\My Builds\cmake\Utilities" -ISource 
-I"C:\Users\hoffman\Work\My Builds\cmake\Source" -IUtilities\cmcompress 
-I"C:\Users\hoffman\Work\My Builds\cmake\Source\CTest" 
-D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE -DCURL_STATICLIB 
-DLIBARCHIVE_STATIC -DCMAKE_BUILD_WITH_CMAKE -DCMAKE_USE_NINJA /TP 
/FoSource\CMakeFiles\cpack.dir\CPack\cpack.cxx.obj /Fdbin\cpack.pdb -c 
"C:\Users\hoffman\Work\My Builds\cmake\Source\CPack\cpack.cxx"
cpack.cxx


If I go into the build tree and mkdir bin, then it builds.

So, is this just a windows ninja thing?

-Bill