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by bakudanen
565 days ago
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I had my stint with build systems. Nx, Bazel to name a few. In the past I was always the go to guy to configure these stuffs. OP said that ninja is small enough to be implemented in your favorite programming language. I wonder if there is step by step tutorial to create your own build system? |
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> ... Where other build systems are high-level languages, Ninja aims to be an assembler.
> ... Ninja is intended to be used with a separate program generating its input files.
> ... Ninja is pretty easy to implement for the fun 20% of it and the remaining 80% is "just" some fiddly details.
There are many ninja generators out there already [1] but writing a simple, custom one shouldn't be too hard [2] and could make sense for some projects.
BTW, ninja is great but I wish the configuration file had used a more standard format, easier to parse and generate from any language. JSON would have been a better option I think, given the abundance of tooling around it.
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1: https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/wiki/List-of-generators...
2: https://ninja-build.org/manual.html#ref_ninja_file