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| author | Evan Martin <martine@danga.com> | 2011-05-17 22:27:00 (GMT) |
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| committer | Evan Martin <martine@danga.com> | 2011-05-17 22:27:00 (GMT) |
| commit | 28eb6b792dd9893a56e0f6c17a81eb0b1edf04cb (patch) | |
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update instructions on using gyp; mention cmake
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diff --git a/doc/manual.asciidoc b/doc/manual.asciidoc index 7aa000e..4752c1c 100644 --- a/doc/manual.asciidoc +++ b/doc/manual.asciidoc @@ -289,7 +289,14 @@ Generating Ninja files A work-in-progress patch to http://gyp.googlecode.com[gyp, the system used to generate build files for the Chromium browser] to generate -ninja files for Linux is included in the source distribution. +ninja files for Linux is available from +https://github.com/martine/gyp/tree/ninja[my "ninja" branch of the +upstream gyp project]. To use it, put that branch in place of +Chromium's gyp, set `GYP_GENERATORS=ninja` in your environment, and +run `./build/gyp_chromium` to regenerate the build files. + +I have heard from people who have been working on generating Ninja +files from CMake, but I don't think it's in a working state yet. Conceptually, you could coax Automake into producing ninja files as well, but I haven't tried it. It may very well be the case that most |