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diff --git a/doc/manual.asciidoc b/doc/manual.asciidoc index f6c1dda..71225f0 100644 --- a/doc/manual.asciidoc +++ b/doc/manual.asciidoc @@ -130,6 +130,13 @@ but they are not part of make itself.) Using Ninja for your project ---------------------------- +Ninja currently works on Unix-like systems. It's seen the most testing +on Linux (and has the best performance there) but it runs fine on Mac +OS X and FreeBSD. Ninja has some preliminary Windows support but the +full details of the implementation -- like how to get C header +interdependencies correct and fast when using MSVC's compiler -- is +not yet complete. + If your project is small, Ninja's speed impact is likely unnoticable. Some build timing numbers are included below. (However, even for small projects it sometimes turns out that Ninja's limited syntax @@ -148,7 +155,8 @@ meta-build system. http://code.google.com/p/gyp/[gyp]:: The meta-build system used to generate build files for Google Chrome. gyp can generate Ninja files -for Linux and Mac and is used by many Chrome developers. See the +for Linux and Mac and is used by many Chrome developers; support for +Windows is in progress. See the http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/NinjaBuild[Chromium Ninja documentation for more details]. gyp is relatively unpopular outside of the Chrome and v8 world. @@ -163,7 +171,9 @@ of the Chrome and v8 world. almost all of them will be over a minute." http://www.cmake.org/[CMake]:: A widely used meta-build system that -can generate Ninja files as of version 2.8.8. +can generate Ninja files on Linux as of CMake version 2.8.8. (There +is some Mac and Windows support, but those platforms are not yet +officially supported by CMake as the full test suite doesn't pass.) * For building Blender, one user reported "Single file rebuild is 0.97 sec, same on makefiles was 3.7sec." |