[CMake] CMake/Ninja support in Qt Creator

[Peter Kümmel]

On 23.09.2012 15:04, Wouter van Kleunen wrote:
>
> I had the following idea to speed up the building even more, if a tool
> can be build in ninja to list all files that need to be stat when
> building  a project. These files can be monitored by qtcreator and later
> be provided as input again to ninja. So my idea works as follows:
>
> 1. Build project using cmake + ninja
> 2. Get file list of all dependencies by using ninja (something like
> ninja -t deplist).
> 3. Monitor the files using qt creator + qfilesystemwatcher
>
> When the user requests a rebuild:
> 4. Execute a ninja build command + provide the list of changed files.
> This way ninja won't have to stat any file.
> 5. Ninja builds
>
> Is this feasible ?

I assume Qt Creator does it this way for qbs.
But for ninja this would be too much work.

You think even ninja is too slow?

Peter