[graalvm-dev] Avoiding NINJA dependency

[Christian Wimmer]

Hi,

Ninja is a pretty established build tool. Why is the dependency a problem?
Our initial hand-written make files were not portable (especially to 
Windows). Automatically generating make files (or nmake files on 
Windows) seems like making things worse.

-Christian


On 4/28/20 06:31, Foivos Zakkak wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am trying to avoid the dependency on NINJA when building native 
> libraries like libchelper.
> Are you aware of any way to achieve this without manually writing Makefiles?
> 
> Additionally, if I were to write the required Makefiles and alter the 
> corresponding suite.py files is there any chance such a change would 
> make it upstream or is NINJA the only way forward?
> I see that makefiles are only used by sulong at the moment.
> 
> Thanks
> -- 
> 
> Foivos Zakkak
> 
> Senior Software Engineer, R&D Product Middleware
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