[cmake-developers] Ninja windows

[Nicolas Desprès]

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Peter Collingbourne <peter at pcc.me.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 03:56:24PM -0500, Bill Hoffman wrote:
>> On 3/6/2012 1:29 PM, Peter Collingbourne wrote:
>>
>>> We can certainly do that, but the ninja binary would need to be
>>> switched as soon as we get around to using rspfile in Ninja (and
>>> no sooner).
>>>
>>
>> OK, so is there a ninja binary that I can download right now that will
>> work if I change the cmake files for cmake to build the ninja generator
>> on windows?  If so, where is it?  My idea is to try it on my machine. If
>> it works I will push the change into next that enables ninja on windows
>> and setup a dashboard that pulls ninja from that spot each night. When
>> cmake is changed to work with master ninja if someone updates that
>> binary, then it will pull that and just work.  That is what I have been
>> doing with jom.
>
> That would be Peter Kummel's ninja.  But what I would suggest we do,
> as I suggested before, is to use an internal variable to turn on the
> Ninja generator on Windows and Mac.  This way, we can safely merge
> ninja-generator into master without confusing users on Windows or
> Mac by shipping a non-working Ninja generator in the next release,
> while keeping the ability to test (on the dashboard and otherwise).
> I have no idea what the timeframe for the Windows and Mac people
> is, but I really would like the Ninja generator to be available on
> non-Windows/Mac platforms in 2.8.8.

Sounds fair enough.

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Nicolas Desprès