Hi On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 7:32 AM, Michael Forney <mfor...@mforney.org> wrote: > Over the past couple weeks, I implemented a ninja-compatible build > tool in C. It is much simpler and smaller than ninja and seems to > perform at least as well. > > https://github.com/michaelforney/samurai > > It has all the features I care about, apart from gcc -MD header > dependency parsing which is planned. I replaced ninja with samurai in > oasis to remove the C++ dependency.
https://ninja-build.org/manual.html#ref_headers I assume it's this functionality that is still missing, correct? > Even if you don't care for ninja, it does seem to be gaining > popularity, and I've noticed several projects start switching from > autotools to meson (which outputs ninja), so I thought it would be > good to have a small C implementation. It was also a fun project. I have seen that some of the Wayland projects I care about are working on switching to meson but I did not know that it uses ninja under the hood. Since you seem to have plenty of experience with ninja, do you think it has any advantages over using a Makefile containing 20-50 lines of code? If I start looking into using ninja for some project I will have a look at samurai for sure! Cheers, Silvan
