[cmake-developers] Ninja generator on Windows

Peter Kümmel syntheticpp at gmx.net
Mon Jan 30 18:15:59 EST 2012


I played a bit with the Ninja generator on Windows,
and added some hacks to make it a bit running:

https://github.com/syntheticpp/CMake/commit/0a55b61271106eb7c3319340f2c54f6bab3c0f8b

Here are the problems I found so far:

- Paths like 'c:\' - Ninja now supports colon escaping "c:" -> "c$:"
   Is there a single place where the escaping could be done?

- Backslashes: could they also be replaced at a single place?

- Finding the msvc compiler fails because TARGET_IMPLIB is empty
   and to the linker /implib: is passed without an argument.
   Why is TARGET_IMPLIB empty?

- Some targets have the .exe extension, but the rule misses the .exe.

- When && is used for calling multiple command a 'cmd.exe /c' call is necessary.

- How it is possible to choose a compiler (msvc, mingw)?


Peter



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