On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca>wrote:
> On 2012-07-19 09:04+0200 Nicolas Desprès wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca >> >**wrote: >> >> There has been a lot of traffic here concerning the CMake Ninja >>> backend for more than a year with some claims that that combination is >>> now working pretty well on all platforms. Therefore, my curiosity has >>> been aroused even though I am fairly satisfied with the CMake Make >>> backend. So I would like to try out CMake with the Ninja backend for >>> my favorite CMake-based software build (PLplot). >>> >>> I have some newbie questions about the Ninja backend. >>> >>> What versions of CMake and Ninja work well together on both the Linux >>> and the Windows platforms? (My fundamental platform is Linux, but I >>> also sometimes test CMake-based builds on the Wine variant of >>> Windows.) Has Ninja been officially released so we can talk about an >>> official version for it or are there just git snapshots available? If >>> the latter, I am not that familiar with git so could somebody give me >>> the appropriate git clone command to download the source, and also the >>> git command to let me know exactly what source snapshot version I am >>> working with? >>> >>> >> See >> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/**CMake/Git<http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake/Git> >> >> >>> Are there any Ninja caveats? For example, does Ninja allow parallel >>> builds? What are the Ninja strengths compared to Make? I understand >>> that rebuilds with just a few (or no) files changed should be faster >>> with Ninja, but how about builds from scratch? >>> >>> >> See >> http://martine.github.com/**ninja/manual.html<http://martine.github.com/ninja/manual.html> >> >> >> >>> I know how to build CMake, but can somebody give concise build >>> instructions for Ninja? For example, is there a CMake-based >>> build system for Ninja itself that works with the Make backend >>> for CMake? >>> >>> >> Follow the instruction in the HACKING file there git:// >> github.com/martine/ninja.git >> >> There are also CMake based build-system in some of the fork of this >> project. Here is one of them: >> git://github.com/syntheticpp/**ninja.git<http://github.com/syntheticpp/ninja.git> >> >> > Thanks, Nicolas, for the useful general background information on git > and Ninja, but I also need some specifics. For example, does the > version of Ninja at > git://github.com/martine/**ninja.git<http://github.com/martine/ninja.git>work > well as a > backend for CMake for _both_ Linux and Windows? If so, what minimum > version of CMake is required? As far as I know the last official release of CMake supports Ninja backend for both Linux and Windows. Martine's Ninja is the official repository. Although I am sure it works for Linux, I cannot guaranty it for Windows but I am almost sure. Try it :-) -- Nicolas Desprès
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