[cmake-developers] ninja bug on windows

Peter Collingbourne peter at pcc.me.uk
Sat Mar 17 20:04:54 EDT 2012


On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 03:43:53PM +0000, Peter Collingbourne wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:52:22AM -0400, Bill Hoffman wrote:
> > On 3/13/2012 10:39 PM, Peter Collingbourne wrote:
> >> Maybe another time we can think about ways to improve PCH support,
> >> but for now I guess we can add an OR Ninja to this test and add
> >> OBJECT_OUTPUTS support to the Ninja generator.
> > I tried making that blog active for ninja and a I get a new error:
> >
> >
> > 122: ninja: ERROR: 'PCH\foo_precompiled.pch', needed by  
> > 'CMakeFiles\foo.dir\foo1.c.obj', missing and no known rule to make it
> >
> >
> > So, Ninja is not handling OBJECT_OUTPUTS and OBJECT_DEPENDS correctly?
> >
> >
> >   SET_SOURCE_FILES_PROPERTIES(foo_precompile.c PROPERTIES
> >     OBJECT_OUTPUTS "${PCH_DIR}/foo_precompiled.pch")
> >
> >   # These source files use the precompiled header.
> >   SET_SOURCE_FILES_PROPERTIES(${foo_SRCS} PROPERTIES
> >     OBJECT_DEPENDS "${PCH_DIR}/foo_precompiled.pch")
> 
> The Ninja generator is handling OBJECT_DEPENDS correctly but not
> OBJECT_OUTPUTS.  Adding support shouldn't be too difficult -- we
> just need to output a phony build statement creating a dependency
> from any OBJECT_OUTPUTS to the object file.

Fixed as of commit 9077adfc528957a929b19f0375752a46ec74ceb9.

Thanks,
-- 
Peter



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