In short, Ninja parses faster, and has built-in features that reduce the amount to parse. From the philosophical overview in the ninja manual: Where other build systems are high-level languages, Ninja aims to be an assembler. Ninja files are often “compiled” from other makefiles, making it a two-step process whereas Make is a single step. … Read more
You have to set the compiler environment accordingly before calling Ninja generation. If you have Visual Studio 2013 installed at the standard installation path you call: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat” x64 cmake.exe -G “Ninja” .. Edit: Thanks for the hint from @Antwane: “Or simply run CMake command from a Microsoft Visual Studio Command … Read more
The script you are executing uses the CMake Ninja generator. For that to work you need Ninja on the path. On most Linux distributions you can install it from a package. Ubuntu: ninja-build openSUSE: ninja If you can’t find it for your distribution, you have to download it and add its location to the path … Read more