[CMake] How to get started with the CMake Ninja backend on Linux and Windows?

[Nicolas Desprès]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Alan W. Irwin <irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca>wrote:

> There has been a lot of traffic here concerning the CMake Ninja
> backend for more than a year with some claims that that combination is
> now working pretty well on all platforms.  Therefore, my curiosity has
> been aroused even though I am fairly satisfied with the CMake Make
> backend.  So I would like to try out CMake with the Ninja backend for
> my favorite CMake-based software build (PLplot).
>
> I have some newbie questions about the Ninja backend.
>
> What versions of CMake and Ninja work well together on both the Linux
> and the Windows platforms?  (My fundamental platform is Linux, but I
> also sometimes test CMake-based builds on the Wine variant of
> Windows.) Has Ninja been officially released so we can talk about an
> official version for it or are there just git snapshots available?  If
> the latter, I am not that familiar with git so could somebody give me
> the appropriate git clone command to download the source, and also the
> git command to let me know exactly what source snapshot version I am
> working with?
>

See http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake/Git

>
> Are there any Ninja caveats?  For example, does Ninja allow parallel
> builds?  What are the Ninja strengths compared to Make?  I understand
> that rebuilds with just a few (or no) files changed should be faster
> with Ninja, but how about builds from scratch?
>

See http://martine.github.com/ninja/manual.html


>
> I know how to build CMake, but can somebody give concise build
> instructions for Ninja?  For example, is there a CMake-based
> build system for Ninja itself that works with the Make backend
> for CMake?
>

Follow the instruction in the HACKING file there git://
github.com/martine/ninja.git

There are also CMake based build-system in some of the fork of this
project. Here is one of them: git://github.com/syntheticpp/ninja.git

Cheers,

-- 
Nicolas Desprès
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