http://martine.github.io/ninja

a small build system with a focus on speed
http://martine.github.io/ninja

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a small build system with a focus on speed

• Host: GitHub
• URL: http://martine.github.io/ninja
• Owner: ninja-build
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2011-02-06T19:07:12.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-03-22T20:12:05.000Z (3 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-03-26T01:19:01.732Z (3 months ago)
• Language: C++
• Homepage: https://ninja-build.org/
• Size: 4.53 MB
• Stars: 10,404
• Watchers: 265
• Forks: 1,538
• Open Issues: 368
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: COPYING

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README

        
# Ninja

Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed.

https://ninja-build.org/

See [the manual](https://ninja-build.org/manual.html) or

`doc/manual.asciidoc` included in the distribution for background

and more details.

Binaries for Linux, Mac and Windows are available on

  [GitHub](https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/releases).

Run `./ninja -h` for 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](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](https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/wiki).

### Python

```

./configure.py --bootstrap

```

This will generate the `ninja` binary and a `build.ninja` file you can now use

to build Ninja with itself.

### CMake

```

cmake -Bbuild-cmake

cmake --build build-cmake

```

The `ninja` binary will now be inside the `build-cmake` directory (you can

choose any other name you like).

To run the unit tests:

```

./build-cmake/ninja_test

```