Ninja Build

[tmaierhofer]

Does VisualGDB support Ninja Builds (maybe over CMake?), and if how ist this configured

[support]

Hi,

We don’t support it directly. However you can import a Ninja Build project to VisualGDB by selecting “Import a project built with other tools” in the wizard and specifying the build command line and the path to the built executable. VisualGDB will then invoke the command line you specified to build your project.

[kurt]

In the dialog shown in the attachment, is it possible to pass -G "Ninja" as the argument?  I have tried it and it doesn’t work, but perhaps it is supported, just that I am doing things incorrectly?

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[support]

Hi,

Sorry, this won’t work as VisualGDB would still try to specify “-G Makefile” internally. As a workaround, please modify the .vgdbsettings (or .vgdbcmake) file as shown below:

<Build xsi:type="com.visualgdb.build.cmake">
    <!-- ... -->
    <CMakeMakefileType>Ninja</CMakeMakefileType>
</Build>

We do agree that this workaround is inconvenient and will include a GUI setting for this in the next major update.

[kurt]

Thanks for the quick response, as always.  It works great!

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