Quicklinks
If you already know the general facts about the xPack Ninja Build, you can directly skip to the desired pages.
User pages:
Developer & maintainer pages:
Overview
The xPack Ninja Build is a cross-platform binary distribution of the Ninja build system, an open source project hosted on GitHub.
Benefits
The main advantages of using the xPack Ninja Build are:
- a convenient, uniform and portable install/uninstall/upgrade procedure, the same procedure is used for all major platforms (Intel Windows 64-bit, Intel GNU/Linux 64-bit, Arm GNU/Linux 64/32-bit, Intel macOS 64-bit, Apple Silicon macOS 64-bit)
- a better integration with development environments
- a more convenient integration with CI environment
All binaries are self-contained, they include all required libraries, and can be installed in any location.
Compatibility
The xPack Ninja Build is fully compatible with the original Ninja distribution.
Install
The details of installing the xPack Ninja Build on various platforms are presented in the separate install page.
Documentation
The original Ninja documentation is available in the installed folders:
- https://ninja-build.org/manual.html
Support
For the various support options, please read the separate support page.
Change log
The release and change log is available in the repository
CHANGELOG.md file.
Build details
For those interested in building the binaries, please read the
README-MAINTAINER
page.
However, the ultimate source for details are the build scripts themselves,
all available from the
ninja-build-xpack.git/scripts
folder.
Releases
See the releases pages.