CMake A widely used meta-build system that can generate Ninja files on Linux as of CMake version 2.8.8. Newer versions of CMake support generating Ninja files on Windows and Mac OS X too. Ninja is used to build Google Chrome, parts of Android, LLVM, and can be used in many other projects due to CMake's Ninja backend. See the manual for more: philosophical background, whether and how you can use Ninja for your project, platform support, and details about the language semantics. Introduction to cmake and ninja ¶ Cmake plus ninja is approximately equal to GNU autotools plus GNU make, respectively. Both cmake and GNU autotools support self and cross-compilation, checking for required components and versions. For a decent-sized project - such as vpp - build performance is drastically better with (cmake, ninja). # If you set this property, Gradle no longer uses PATH to find CMake. Cmake.dir='path-to-cmake' If you don't already have the Ninja build system installed on your workstation, go to the official Ninja website, and download and install the latest version of Ninja available for your OS. Recently IT has switched to a new build system based on cmake. Cmake is a much flexible option for generating files needed for compilation. On Linux, for example, cmake generates by default Makefiles, but the latest cmake versions (e.g. 2.8.9) have the option to generate Ninja files instead.

We are pleased to announce that a new multi-configuration variant of the Ninja generator will be available for all supported platforms in CMake 3.17. This feature has been requested in the past, and even attempted by external contributors, but not completed until now. With the Qt Project’s migration to CMake, we have finally implemented it to help with building simultaneous debug and release builds of Qt.

The Ninja Multi-Config generator generates .ninja files, just like the traditional single-config Ninja generator. However, it generates these files for multiple configurations, similar to the Visual Studio and XCode generators. This means that, for the first time ever, CMake supports multi-configuration builds on Linux and all other supported platforms. (Until the development of this feature, only Windows and MacOS could do multi-configuration builds using Visual Studio and XCode, respectively.)

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When using the Ninja Multi-Config generator, multiple build-<Config>.ninja files are generated, one for each configuration in CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES. Select a configuration by running ninja -f build-<Config>.ninja <target>, which will build <target> in the selected configuration. And of course, you can also use cmake --build . --config <config> to build instead.

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If you don’t want to run ninja with the -f argument, don’t worry. You can optionally specify a configuration to use for a build.ninja file, in which case running ninja <target> will behave as if you ran ninja -f build-<DefaultConfig>.ninja <target>.

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One of the more advanced features of the Ninja Multi-Config generator is cross-config mode. In this mode, you can use tools built in one configuration to run custom commands for another configuration. For example, you can run the release version of a code generation tool to generate some code, which will then be compiled in the debug configuration. This is useful for building targets in debug mode without having to use the slower debug versions of the tools used to generate the code.

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The Ninja Multi-Config generator will be available in CMake 3.17. For details on how to use it, see the CMake documentation.