[LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] Ninja build available for Visual Studio users

[Justin Holewinski]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Mikael Lyngvig <mikael at lyngvig.org> wrote:

> A tiny question (I hardly know what Ninja is, but am looking forward to
> trying it out): Does the changes also work with MinGW builds?  I've got a
> Windows buildbot slave that does nothing but building LLVM+Clang using
> MinGW64 all day, every day.  Or, is it only for Visual Studio?


I just tried a mingw64 build, and all was fine!


>
>
> 2012/6/13 Justin Holewinski <justin.holewinski at gmail.com>
>
>> Wow, this is seriously fast on Windows!  I've been using Ninja on
>> Linux/Mac for awhile now, I'm glad to see it working on Windows now.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:09 PM, =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= <
>> ofv at wanadoo.es> wrote:
>>
>>> Nikola Smiljanic <popizdeh at gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>> > Could somebody please provide more info. What exactly is ninja (I'm
>>> > guessing it's a build system) and how to set it up in combination with
>>> > Visual Studio?
>>>
>>> This is the message I posted on the LLVM mailing list. Here it goes
>>> again for the benefit of CLang'ers:
>>>
>>> Building LLVM with Visual Studio is a bit of a pain because the
>>> available methods are slow and doesn't make good use of multiprocessor
>>> systems.
>>>
>>> >From now on it is possible to build LLVM+Clang with the usual cmake
>>> method but using Ninja, an ultra-fast tool that knows how to take
>>> advantage of the availabe execution threads. Ultra-fast is no
>>> exageration: with a warm cache, a no-op build of LLVM is done in less
>>> than half a second.
>>>
>>> Rigth now Ninja/VS support is activated on a cmake experimental build,
>>> with strong possibilities of making its way into the next official
>>> release. For now, you need to build the patched cmake+ninja yourselves
>>> or download the executables from
>>>
>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/cmakescript/files/
>>>
>>> Download and install cmake-Ninja-2.8.8.*-win32-x86.exe, then download
>>> ninja.exe to the `bin' subdirectory of the place where you installed
>>> cmake. Then proceed to build LLVM:
>>>
>>> mkdir myLLVMbuildWithNinja
>>> cd myLLVMbuildWithNinja
>>> cmake -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release path/to/llvm/source/root
>>> ninja
>>>
>>> (be sure to use the cmake you just installed, not the one you already
>>> had on the system)
>>>
>>> If you prefer to build cmake+ninja yourselves, read the thread
>>>
>>>
>>> http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?group=gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.devel&article=3903
>>>
>>> (long, sorry) or ask on the cmake developer's mailing list for pointers,
>>> as right now the exact sources are a bit of a moving target. If you find
>>> bugs building LLVM or any other cmake-based project with ninja, please
>>> report them on cmake's developers mailing list, available through gmane:
>>>
>>> http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.devel
>>>
>>> or via e-mail:
>>>
>>> http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
>>>
>>> About ninja:
>>>
>>> http://martine.github.com/ninja/
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Justin Holewinski
>>
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Thanks,

Justin Holewinski
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