Hi, These patches add the Ninja generator to CMake, which I am now proposing for inclusion in mainline. The generator should work with the current 'master' branch of Ninja from:
https://github.com/martine/ninja The generator passes the CMake test suite on Linux (Debian testing) and FreeBSD 9.0-RC1, and I have been regularly using it myself with LLVM and Clang for about 2 months. I have also successfully tested it with the build systems for OpenCV, Bullet Physics, BRL-CAD, kdelibs and Path64. Some performance numbers for no-op builds (2.0GHz dual core laptop, Debian testing): CMake: Unix Makefiles: 0.6s Ninja: 0.042s kdelibs: Unix Makefiles: 9.8s Ninja: 2.5s [1] LLVM/Clang/Polly: Unix Makefiles: 2.9s Ninja: 0.18s BRL-CAD: Unix Makefiles: 19s Ninja: 0.40s Path64: Unix Makefiles: 3.9s Ninja: 0.25s Note that this generator is *nix only (it relies on POSIX shell functionality), and will only be built on *nix platforms. I am not interested in Windows support, but I understand that others have expressed an interest in adding support. I made some minor changes to the ExternalProject module as well as some of the tests to make them work with the generator, and added explanations for those changes as comments. I separated out the changes to kwsys, so that they can be applied separately. This patch series is also available from my git repository: git://github.com/pcc/CMake.git ninja-generator-pr Please review! Thanks, -- Peter [1] The disproportionately large Ninja run time here seems to be caused by a large number of required invocations of the 'automoc' command. -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
