[cmake-developers] ninja/make compilation response file

Nils Gladitz nilsgladitz at gmail.com
Mon Apr 4 12:56:50 EDT 2016


On 04.04.2016 18:38, Nils Gladitz wrote:
> On 04.04.2016 17:59, Dmitry Ivanov wrote:
>>
>> PS. Can we do something about bloated cmake ninja generator ? in our 
>> case cmake generates 1.8 Mb Makefile and 84 Mb build.ninja, though 
>> ninja is still faster than make even in this case.
>>
>
> Curious. Did you count the accumulative size of all Makefile and 
> Makefile2 files (also in sub-directories)?
> For a project of mine the ninja files are only half in size of what is 
> generated for the Makefile generator (CMake 3.5.1).

Oh and the Makefile generator also uses build.make files which actually 
seem to be where most of the size goes.

Nils

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