On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoff...@kitware.com> wrote: > On 3/23/2011 9:47 AM, Nicolas Desprès wrote: >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> This weekend I started to work on a new generator for Ninja. I did >> not know the internal architecture of CMake so I spent most of my time >> understanding how it works. I have the very little beginning of >> something in a local topic branch. It is not able to bootstrap a >> simple helloworld project yet. I have attached a git log and a git log >> -p of what I have done so far. Not so much but I will work on it more >> next weekend. >> >> Also, I have few questions about CMake internal architecture. I don't >> really understand how global and local generator work together? Where >> should I put my code? in the global or in the local one? I have taken >> most of the inspiration from the UnixMakefile generator but the Ninja >> generator has on major difference: Ninja is not design to work in a >> recursive form. I did some experiment and all the automatic step >> counting of Ninja does not make sense in a recursive approach. So, I >> think I should put all my code only in the global generator and >> generate only one build.ninja file per project. >>
Oups! Sorry for sending the email twice. I canceled the first which was too big but it get published anyway. > You should not put all the code in the global generator. I would think it > would be better to model it after the VS2010 generator, which is more target > based. You still need the local/global generators, but the local generator > just cycles over the targets that are in that directory. So, look at > cmGlobalVisualStudio10Generator.cxx cmLocalVisualStudio10Generator.cxx > cmVisualStudio10TargetGenerator.cxx. Ok. Thanks for the advice. I'll have a look at it this weekend -- Nicolas Desprès _______________________________________________ cmake-developers mailing list cmake-developers@cmake.org http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
