[CMake] CMake + Ninja

[Nicolas Desprès]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Óscar Fuentes <ofv at wanadoo.es> wrote:
> Clifford Yapp <cliffyapp at gmail.com>
> writes:
>
>> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Peter Collingbourne <peter at pcc.me.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> I managed to test these changes on a Mac and it fixed all but 7
>>> test failures, so I rolled it into the ninja-generator-pr branch.
>>> In terms of applications I didn't have time to try building anything
>>> other than CMake itself and LLVM/Clang (both successfully), but please
>>> let me know if there are any other problems with BRL-CAD.
>>
>> Confirmed - working now on Mac building BRL-CAD - thanks!
>
> Does anyone know what changes are required to make the Ninja generator
> work on Windows? I know nothing about the CMake C++ base nor I see
> anything obvious on the source code of the Ninja generator but, maybe,
> with a starting point, something could be done with some hours I can
> devote to that task. I mailed Peter Collingbourne some weeks ago but
> received no response.

Mainly remove all shell related constructs like && and redirection.
Those topics has been discussed both on cmake/cmake-dev ML and
ninja-build ML.

Cheers,

-- 
Nicolas Desprès