Re: Abysmal state of GTK build

[Visuwesh]

[புதன் ஆகஸ்ட் 24, 2022] Andrea Corallo wrote:

>
> Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:
>
>> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>>
>>> I wonder whether anybody has looked into switching to a different build
>>> system?
>>
>> Long time ago I volunteered to create a CMake-based build system and
>> even experimented a bit to the point of dumping emacs. Almost all of the
>> work consisted on implementing the platform checks.
>>
>> CMake has the advantage of supporting multiple "backends" for the build
>> phase, and `ninja' provides a significant speed-up over `make' on large
>> projects.
>
> Using ninja would translate into an hard dependency on python and I
> don't think this is acceptable.  Also I'm not really sure ninja is
> faster than make.

FWIW, there is a C implementation of ninja called samurai:
https://github.com/michaelforney/samurai.

There is also a C implantation of meson called muon:
https://sr.ht/~lattis/muon/.