[CMake] CMake/Ninja support in Qt Creator

[Wouter van Kleunen]

Peter,

yes I figured it would be something like that, compilations per seconds.
But did the ninja developers remove this option ?

I tried the ninja version you uploaded to github and this also works fine.

Wouter

> On 19.09.2012 09:48, Wouter van Kleunen wrote:
>>
>> Peter,
>>
>> I guess removing just the build directory also seems to work.
>>
>> I agree with your objections of the location the user file, the source
>> directory should stay clean. An inattentive moment and you have the file
>> in your version control.
>>
>> Anyway, it seems to build now using an older version of ninja. However
>> when I use the 1.0.0 version of ninja, I get the following error:
>>
>> ninja: FATAL: unknown placeholder '%o' in $NINJA_STATUS
>
> This is needed for printing the compile rate: have a look at
> "Compile Output", there you can see the compiled files per second rate.
>
>>
>> With the ninja downloaded from here:
>> https://github.com/martine/ninja/downloads
>
> This is not a 1.0.0 build, it needs -V for printing the version, which is
> pre 1.0.
> And even 1.0.0 has an ugly bug. Please select the ninja in the bin dir.
> I've also uploaded a ninja binary on github.
>
> Peter
>
>
>>
>> Wouter
>>
>>> Yes, starting from scratch helps in most cases. But with cmake
>>> we are used to simply clean the build dir, which doesn't help here.
>>>
>>> It is a problem that creator's .user file is stored beside
>>> the CMakeLists.txt: you can't check it in because of absolute paths,
>>> a clean of the repository removes it, a buggy setup
>>> is remember by creator, and it violates the principle
>>> "don't touch the the source". I told them, but they don't care.
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 19.09.2012 08:08, Wouter van Kleunen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Peter,
>>>>
>>>> i had 2.8.9-pre3 before, i upgraded to 2.8.9. But only after deleting
>>>> the CMakeLists user file from qtcreator, deleting the build directory
>>>> and restarting qtcreator I was able to get the option to build with
>>>> Ninja.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, it seems to work fine now, and the building is much faster.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Wouter
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Op 18-9-2012 22:50, Peter Kümmel schreef:
>>>>> Hi Wouter,
>>>>>
>>>>> you need the latest cmake version, 2.8.9.
>>>>>
>>>>> Under Tools/Options/Build&Run/CMake
>>>>> the ninja binary could be set, or have it PATH.
>>>>>
>>>>> Peter
>>>>>
>>>>> On 18.09.2012 22:29, Wouter van Kleunen wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So how do you make it to use ninja ? Should I enable ninja somewhere
>>>>>> ?
>>>>>> Because when I run cmake from the gui it now still generates
>>>>>> nmakefiles.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Wouter
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Op 17-9-2012 18:08, Peter Kümmel schreef:
>>>>>>> Qt Creator 2.6 is beta now.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On github I've uploaded a patched version with Ninja support for
>>>>>>> CMake
>>>>>>> based projects:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>        https://github.com/syntheticpp/qt-creator/downloads
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When CDB is installed
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/qtcreator-2.5/creator-debugger-engines.html#supported-cdb-versions
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> debugging works even with the 32bit/64bit compilers of Visual
>>>>>>> Studio
>>>>>>> Express 2012.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Currently I'm trying to bring the patches upstream, but for 2.6 it
>>>>>>> seems too late.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Peter
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