Ninja

Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed.https://ninja-build.org/

See the manual ordoc/manual.asciidoc included in the distribution for backgroundand more details.

Binaries for Linux, Mac, and Windows are available atGitHub.Run ./ninja -h for Ninja help.

Installation is not necessary because the only required file is theresulting ninja binary. However, to enable features like Bashcompletion and Emacs and Vim editing modes, some files in misc/ must becopied to appropriate locations.

If you're interested in making changes to Ninja, readCONTRIBUTING.md first.

Building Ninja itself

You can either build Ninja via the custom generator script written in Python orvia CMake. For more details seethe wiki.

Python

./configure.py --bootstrap

This will generate the ninja binary and a build.ninja file you can now useto build Ninja with itself.

CMake

cmake -Bbuild-cmakecmake --build build-cmake

The ninja binary will now be inside the build-cmake directory (you canchoose any other name you like).

To run the unit tests:

./build-cmake/ninja_test