[CMake] FYI - From Ninja-build mailing list - Fwd: Proposal: restat rules

[Campbell Barton]

Tested cmake/ninja with Blender's cmake files, works well, and fast!
Single file rebuild is 0.97 sec, same on makefiles was 3.7sec.

btw, we do something similar to LLVM with generating source, only
updating if it changes, however only for C files not headers, ninja
handles this ok for my quick tests editing files and rebuilding.

Looking forward to having this in stable cmake!

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Peter Collingbourne <peter at pcc.me.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 11:04:42PM -0400, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin wrote:
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Peter Collingbourne <peter at pcc.me.uk>
>> Date: Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:17 PM
>> Subject: Proposal: restat rules
>> To: ninja-build at googlegroups.com
>
> FWIW, the Ninja generator I have been working on is based on work by
> Nicolas Despres, and has been successfully used to compile a number
> of large open source projects, including CMake itself, LLVM/Clang,
> OpenCV and Bullet Physics.
>
> I am planning to submit the Ninja generator as a patch to CMake
> upstream once it has been put through more exhaustive testing and
> certain known issues have been resolved (my post to ninja-build being
> one of them).
>
> Anyone who is interested in trying the Ninja generator with
> their own projects is welcome to clone my repository at:
>
> https://github.com/pcc/CMake/tree/ninja-generator
>
> and to report any issues encountered.  Note that the generator is
> currently only known to work on Linux.  To select the Ninja generator
> you can pass the option "-G Ninja" on the cmake command line.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Peter
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- Campbell