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Ninja
Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed. https://ninja-build.org/
See the manual or
doc/manual.asciidocincluded in the distribution for background and more details.
Binaries for Linux, Mac, and Windows are available at GitHub. Run
./ninja -hfor Ninja help.
Installation is not necessary because the only required file is the resulting ninja binary. However, to enable features like Bash completion and Emacs and Vim editing modes, some files in misc/ must be copied to appropriate locations.
If you're interested in making changes to Ninja, read CONTRIBUTING.md first.
Building Ninja itself
You can either build Ninja via the custom generator script written in Python or via CMake. For more details see the wiki.
Python
./configure.py --bootstrap
This will generate the
ninjabinary and a
build.ninjafile you can now use to build Ninja with itself.
CMake
cmake -Bbuild-cmake -H. cmake --build build-cmake
The
ninjabinary will now be inside the
build-cmakedirectory (you can choose any other name you like).
To run the unit tests:
./build-cmake/ninja_test