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| -# Ninja Build
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| -Ninja is a build system written with the specific goal of improving the
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| -edit-compile cycle time. It is used by default everywhere except when building
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| -for iOS.
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| -Ninja behaves very similar to Make -- the major feature is that it starts
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| -building files nearly instantly. (It has a number of minor user interface
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| -improvements to make as well.)
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| -Read more about Ninja at [the Ninja home page](https://ninja-build.org/).
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| -## Using it
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| -### Configure your system to use Ninja
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| -#### Install
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| -Ninja is included in `depot_tools` so there's nothing to install.
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| -## Build instructions
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| -To build Chrome:
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| - cd /path/to/chrome/src
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| - ninja -C out/Debug chrome
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| -Specify `out/Release` for a release build. I recommend setting up an alias so
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| -that you don't need to type out that build directory path.
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| -If you want to build all targets, use `ninja -C out/Debug all`. It's faster to
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| -build only the target you're working on, like `chrome` or `unit_tests`.
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| -## Android
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| -Identical to Linux, just make sure `OS=android` is in your `GYP_DEFINES`. You
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| -want to build one of the apk targets, e.g. `content_shell_apk`.
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| -## Windows
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| -Similar to Linux. It uses MSVS's `cl.exe`, `link.exe`, etc. so you still need to
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| -have VS installed. To use it, open `cmd.exe`, go to your chrome checkout, and
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| -run:
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| - set GYP_DEFINES=component=shared_library
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| - python build\gyp_chromium
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| - ninja -C out\Debug chrome.exe
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| -`component=shared_library` is optional but recommended for faster links.
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| -You can also set `GYP_GENERATORS=ninja,msvs-ninja` to get both VS projects
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| -generated if you want to use VS just to browse/edit (but then gyp takes twice as
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| -long to run).
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| -If you're using Express or the Windows SDK by itself (rather than using a Visual
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| -Studio install), you'll need to run from a vcvarsall command prompt.
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| -### Debugging
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| -Miss VS for debugging?
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| -```
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| -devenv.com /debugexe chrome.exe --my-great-args "go here" --single-process etc
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| -```
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| -Miss Xcode for debugging? Read
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| -http://dev.chromium.org/developers/debugging-on-os-x/building-with-ninja-debugging-with-xcode
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| -### Without Visual Studio
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| -That is, building with just the WinDDK. This is documented in the
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| -[regular build instructions](http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/build-instructions-windows#TOC-Setting-up-the-environment-for-building-with-Visual-C-2010-Express-or-Windows-7.1-SDK).
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| -## Tweaks
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| -### Building through errors
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| -Pass a flag like `-k3` to make Ninja build until it hits three errors instead of
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| -stopping at the first.
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| -### Parallelism
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| -Pass a flag like `-j8` to use 8 parallel processes, or `-j1` to compile just one
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| -at a time (helpful if you're getting weird compiler errors). By default Ninja
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| -tries to use all your processors.
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| -### More options
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| -There are more options. Run `ninja --help` to see them all.
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| -### Custom build configs
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| -You can write a specific build config to a specific output directory via the
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| -`-G` flags to gyp. Here's an example from jamesr:
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| -`build/gyp_chromium -Gconfig=Release -Goutput_dir=out_profiling -Dprofiling=1
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| --Dlinux_fpic=0`
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| -## Bugs
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| -If you encounter any problems, please file a bug at http://crbug.com/new with
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| -label `ninja` and cc `thakis@` or `scottmg@`. Assume that it is a bug in Ninja
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| -before you bother anyone about e.g. link problems.
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