[CMake] CMake/Ninja support in Qt Creator

[Peter Kümmel]

On 19.09.2012 10:19, Wouter van Kleunen wrote:
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> Peter,
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> yes I figured it would be something like that, compilations per seconds.
> But did the ninja developers remove this option ?

No, I've added it ;), but the official ninja binary is not a 1.0 version,
it's two months old.

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> I tried the ninja version you uploaded to github and this also works fine.
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> Wouter
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>> On 19.09.2012 09:48, Wouter van Kleunen wrote:
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>>> Peter,
>>>
>>> I guess removing just the build directory also seems to work.
>>>
>>> I agree with your objections of the location the user file, the source
>>> directory should stay clean. An inattentive moment and you have the file
>>> in your version control.
>>>
>>> Anyway, it seems to build now using an older version of ninja. However
>>> when I use the 1.0.0 version of ninja, I get the following error:
>>>
>>> ninja: FATAL: unknown placeholder '%o' in $NINJA_STATUS
>>
>> This is needed for printing the compile rate: have a look at
>> "Compile Output", there you can see the compiled files per second rate.
>>
>>>
>>> With the ninja downloaded from here:
>>> https://github.com/martine/ninja/downloads
>>
>> This is not a 1.0.0 build, it needs -V for printing the version, which is
>> pre 1.0.
>> And even 1.0.0 has an ugly bug. Please select the ninja in the bin dir.
>> I've also uploaded a ninja binary on github.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Wouter
>>>
>>>> Yes, starting from scratch helps in most cases. But with cmake
>>>> we are used to simply clean the build dir, which doesn't help here.
>>>>
>>>> It is a problem that creator's .user file is stored beside
>>>> the CMakeLists.txt: you can't check it in because of absolute paths,
>>>> a clean of the repository removes it, a buggy setup
>>>> is remember by creator, and it violates the principle
>>>> "don't touch the the source". I told them, but they don't care.
>>>>
>>>> Peter
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 19.09.2012 08:08, Wouter van Kleunen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Peter,
>>>>>
>>>>> i had 2.8.9-pre3 before, i upgraded to 2.8.9. But only after deleting
>>>>> the CMakeLists user file from qtcreator, deleting the build directory
>>>>> and restarting qtcreator I was able to get the option to build with
>>>>> Ninja.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, it seems to work fine now, and the building is much faster.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Wouter
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Op 18-9-2012 22:50, Peter Kümmel schreef:
>>>>>> Hi Wouter,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> you need the latest cmake version, 2.8.9.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Under Tools/Options/Build&Run/CMake
>>>>>> the ninja binary could be set, or have it PATH.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Peter
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 18.09.2012 22:29, Wouter van Kleunen wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So how do you make it to use ninja ? Should I enable ninja somewhere
>>>>>>> ?
>>>>>>> Because when I run cmake from the gui it now still generates
>>>>>>> nmakefiles.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Wouter
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Op 17-9-2012 18:08, Peter Kümmel schreef:
>>>>>>>> Qt Creator 2.6 is beta now.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On github I've uploaded a patched version with Ninja support for
>>>>>>>> CMake
>>>>>>>> based projects:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         https://github.com/syntheticpp/qt-creator/downloads
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> When CDB is installed
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/qtcreator-2.5/creator-debugger-engines.html#supported-cdb-versions
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> debugging works even with the 32bit/64bit compilers of Visual
>>>>>>>> Studio
>>>>>>>> Express 2012.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Currently I'm trying to bring the patches upstream, but for 2.6 it
>>>>>>>> seems too late.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Peter
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