[cmake-developers] Ninja windows

[David Cole]

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:24 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
> That might be fixed just now (perhaps) by stuff that I merged into
> 'next' this afternoon. Try with the very latest next of CMake. (One of
> the commits from Peter K. had not yet been merged into next and it
> dealt with directory creation...)


Or, you could try with the tip of the newest ninja-generator branch on
the stage....