Re: [CMake] How to get started with the CMake Ninja backend on Linux and Windows?
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.cawrote: 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 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 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 Cheers, -- Nicolas Desprès -- 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
Re: [CMake] How to get started with the CMake Ninja backend on Linux and Windows?
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.cawrote: 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 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 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 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 work well as a backend for CMake for _both_ Linux and Windows? If so, what minimum version of CMake is required? Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __ Linux-powered Science __ -- 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
Re: [CMake] How to get started with the CMake Ninja backend on Linux and Windows?
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.cawrote: 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/Githttp://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.htmlhttp://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.githttp://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.githttp://github.com/martine/ninja.gitwork 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 -- 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
Re: [CMake] How to get started with the CMake Ninja backend on Linux and Windows?
On 19/07/2012 11:00, Nicolas Desprès wrote: As far as I know the last official release of CMake supports Ninja backend for both Linux and Windows. I believe CMake 2.8.9 is required for Ninja on Windows. It hasn't been released yet. 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 :-) git clone https://github.com/martine/ninja.git cd ninja python bootstrap.py then copy the ninja binary somewhere in your PATH (/usr/local/bin on Linux, for example) -- 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
[CMake] How to get started with the CMake Ninja backend on Linux and Windows?
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? 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? 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? Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __ Linux-powered Science __ -- 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
