Ninja and KDevelop

[Aleix Pol]

On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:
> On Saturday 18 August 2012 13:27:46 Aleix Pol wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I've just added a new repository with all our unstable plugins called
>> kde:kdev-ninja [1] which includes support for building projects using
>> CMake's (changes to adapt it to the cmake plugins already hit master
>> some weeks ago) ninja [2] generator.
>>
>> I think it's interesting because it lets us take advantage of a tool
>> that tries to improve one of the things that provided a worse
>> experience from cmake (IMHO of course), which was the wait time while
>> compiling something that didn't have much changes.
>
> Have you built kdevplatform + kdevelop with ninja? What are the steps required
> to do so?
Just create a new build directory, create it using -GNinja.

like "cmake -GNInja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debug ....."

I recreated all my build directories in my system (whole KDE) and it's
working fine.

>
> Generally, can you post some numbers on how much faster an incremental built
> and a clean built is compared to make?
I'm not in my system right now, I can try it later if you want. Or you
can just try it, it's easy to install (if you're in archlinux, yaourt
-S ninja-git). I think it's noticeably faster.

>
> And of course, this is awesome if not alone for the Windows people, where
> ninja is available but make is not.
:) a sweet side-effect. Haven't tried it yet, though.

>
> Cheers
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Aleix