On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Matt Williams <li...@milliams.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 10 Feb 2011 14:38:55 Nicolas Desprès wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > Probably some of you are already aware of this new open-source project > > coming from a Chrome developer at Google. > > > > Its goal was to improve the build system performance of the Chrome > > project. So it is designed to be a fast replacement for make. > > > > He speaks about it in its blog here: > > > > http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2011/02/ninja.html > > > > You can find the source code here: > > > > https://github.com/martine/ninja > > > > and the manual here: > > > > http://martine.github.com/ninja/manual.html > > > > As mentioned in the documentation the input file for ninja are not > > designed to be written by hand and should be generated. So it > > perfectly fits in CMake generator approach to build system. > > > > Maybe it worth adding a new generator for Ninja in CMake. I don't > > know about the maturity/stability of the project, though it is still > > very young (started in last October but still maintained today > > according to the git log). Also, if it is internally used at Google > > for the Chrome project, I think it is not going to die. > > > > I will try to find some time on my spare time to start writing a > > generator for it. Helps is welcome too :-) I would like to see if it > > really increases build time of project already using CMake, such as > > boost or KDE. > > I would be very interested to see this. I think we all now that in many > ways > 'make' is showing its age. Without tools like CMake supporting Ninja it > will > have a hard time catching on. I don't really have to time to devote to > developing the generator but I would be very happy to test it on a number > of > CMake projects I'm involved with. > > Do we know if Ninja is supposed to be cross-platform (i.e. Windows) as > well? > > Regards, > Matt > _______________________________________________ > 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://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake > I tried compiling it on Windows yesterday with just the following CMakeLists.txt file, and there were a bunch of compile errors. It shouldn't be too hard to make it work on Windows, though, if Mr. Martin will accept some patches for it... :-) cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8) project(ninja) set(ninja_lib_sources src/build.cc src/build_log.cc src/eval_env.cc src/graph.cc src/parsers.cc src/subprocess.cc src/util.cc src/ninja_jumble.cc ) add_library(ninjaLib STATIC ${ninja_lib_sources}) add_executable(ninja src/ninja.cc) target_link_libraries(ninja ninjaLib) Cheers, David
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