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 > > 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
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