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diff --git a/Help/generator/Ninja Multi-Config.rst b/Help/generator/Ninja Multi-Config.rst index 31e8ea9..11c59f2 100644 --- a/Help/generator/Ninja Multi-Config.rst +++ b/Help/generator/Ninja Multi-Config.rst @@ -11,10 +11,16 @@ Unlike the :generator:`Ninja` generator, ``Ninja Multi-Config`` generates multiple configurations at once with :variable:`CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES` instead of only one configuration with :variable:`CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE`. One ``build-<Config>.ninja`` file will be generated for each of these -configurations (with ``<Config>`` being the configuration name.) No +configurations (with ``<Config>`` being the configuration name.) These files +are intended to be run with ``ninja -f build-<Config>.ninja``. No ``build.ninja`` file is generated by default (see below for how to generate it.) +``cmake --build . --config <Config>`` will always use ``build-<Config>.ninja`` +to build. If no ``--config`` argument is specified, ``cmake --build .`` will +default to ``build-Debug.ninja``, unless a ``build.ninja`` is generated (see +below), in which case that will be used instead. + Each ``build-<Config>.ninja`` file contains ``<target>`` targets as well as ``<target>:<Config>`` targets, where ``<Config>`` is the same as the configuration specified in ``build-<Config>.ninja`` Additionally, if |