[CMake] Ninja: a small build system closest in spirit to Make

[Nicolas Desprès]

2011/2/12 Matt Williams <lists at milliams.com>:
> 2011/2/10 Nicolas Desprès <nicolas.despres at gmail.com>:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Probably some of you are already aware of this new open-source project
>> coming from a Chrome developer at Google.
>>
>> Its goal was to improve the build system performance of the Chrome
>> project. So it is designed to be a fast replacement for make.
>>
>> He speaks about it in its blog here:
>>
>> http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2011/02/ninja.html
>>
>> You can find the source code here:
>>
>> https://github.com/martine/ninja
>>
>> and the manual here:
>>
>> http://martine.github.com/ninja/manual.html
>>
>> As mentioned in the documentation the input file for ninja are not
>> designed to be written by hand and should be generated.  So it
>> perfectly fits in CMake generator approach to build system.
>>
>> Maybe it worth adding a new generator for Ninja in CMake.  I don't
>> know about the maturity/stability of the project, though it is still
>> very young (started in last October but still maintained today
>> according to the git log).  Also, if it is internally used at Google
>> for the Chrome project, I think it is not going to die.
>>
>> I will try to find some time on my spare time to start writing a
>> generator for it.  Helps is welcome too :-)  I would like to see if it
>> really increases build time of project already using CMake, such as
>> boost or KDE.
>
> Maybe you should open a feature request about this
> (http://www.cmake.org/Bug/bug_report_page.php) to keep track of
> progress in a central location.

Good idea: http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=11850

>
> In other news I've started building packages of Ninja for a number of
> Linux distros in the OBS. You can see it at
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=ninja&project=home%3AMilliams
>

Great :-)

-- 
Nicolas Desprès