On Wed, Sep 8, 2021, 6:33 AM David Chisnall <thera...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 08/09/2021 11:52, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > Seems to me that there was an earlier mail about getting CMAKE to work > > with FreeBSD builds. Could be worthwhile to look into getting ninja > > to work also. But I could understand that there might be push-back, > > since the project prefers to use utilities from the source tree. > > CMake is a build-system generator, Ninja is a build system. Usually the > two are used together: CMake generates Ninja files, Ninja runs the > build. Ninja is explicitly designed not to be written by hand. > > CMake can also emit other things, including POSIX Makefiles, but the > Ninja build is usually the fastest. > > CMake and Ninja are both in package systems for Windows, macOS, *BSD, > and all Linux distros that I've seen, unlike bmake, so universally easy > to depend on for cross-builds. Cross compiling with bmake is much > harder harder from anything that isn't FreeBSD. > This may be true. I've never had a problem on mac or linux, but my windows experience is thin. I got looking at the problem, btw, to see if ninja was faster than meta mode. Ninja files aren't horrible to generate, but I never got past the early proof of concept phase... it seemed possible to implement a make ninja target... I'd wanted to use this day to day if it was better than meta. Mason, however looked much harder to generate, but I didn't spend a lot of time on it. I would think this sort of work would be more of a one shot. Didn't look at cmake at all, but I imagine it would be similar... Warner >
