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The source for ninja can be found here: git:///martine/ninja.git or if you use Fortran here: /Kitware/ninja. To use ninja you will need to first build ninja from source. The ninja tool is very quick to figure out that it has nothing to do which is important for incremental builds of large projects. Kitware maintains a branch of ninja with the required features on /Kitware/ninja. As of July 2017, the needed features have not been integrated into upstream ninja.
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Fortunately, CMake now has a ninja generator so that your project can take advantage of this new tool. The Ninja generator conditionally supports Fortran when the ninja tool has the required features. ninja was created to run faster than make and of course run parallel builds very well. This is a replacement for the GNU make tool. Some developers at Google recently created a new build tool called ninja.
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# assume your source code is in a directory called src and you are one directory up from there mkdir build So, if you have a quad core Linux machine, you would run make –j5. For minimum build times, you want to use a value of N that is one more than the number of cores on the machine. The N argument is used to specify how many jobs are run in parallel during the build. The flag tells make to build in parallel. To have parallel builds with gmake, you need to run gmake with the –jN command line option. It is used by CMake’s “Unix Makefiles” generator. The traditional gmake tool which is usually installed as “make” on Linux systems can run parallel builds. I will start with Linux, followed by Apple OSX, and finish up with Windows. It is specified either in the cmake-gui or with the –G command line option to cmake.
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In this blog, I will cover the approaches for parallel builds on the major platforms and tool chains supported by CMake. Since CMake is a Meta build tool that does not directly build software, but rather generates build files for other tools, the approaches to parallel building differ from generator to generator and platform to platform. The CMake build system and its developers have always been aware of how important parallel builds are, and have made sure that CMake could take advantage of them when possible.
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OK, I admit this is a bit of a lame analogy, but I don’t think you would find too many developers that are not interested in building software as fast as possible using all of the horse power available on the hardware they are using. Software developers are equally motivated to use as much of their “cores” as possible to build software. This allows for the most efficient means of moving towards my running goals. As a distance runner, it is important to run using a fully engaged core.