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xPack Ninja Build v1.10.2-3 released

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Liviu Ionescu (ilg)
Liviu Ionescu (ilg)

Version 1.10.2-3 is a maintenance release of the xPack Ninja Build package, fixing the spawning of cmd.exe scripts on Windows.

The xPack Ninja Build is the xPack distribution of the Ninja build system.

There are separate binaries for Windows (x64 and x86), macOS (x64) and GNU/Linux (x64 and x86, arm64 and arm).

Raspberry Pi

The main targets for the GNU/Linux Arm binaries are the Raspberry Pi class devices (armv7l and aarch64; armv6 is not supported).

Download​

The binary files are available from GitHub Releases.

note

For consistency with the Node.js naming conventions, the names of the Intel 32-bit images are now suffixed with -ia32.

Install​

The easiest way to install this specific version, is by using xpm:

xpm install @xpack-dev-tools/ninja-build@1.10.2-3.1 -verbose

Comprehensive instructions for installing xPack Ninja Build on different platforms can be found in the Install Guide.

Compliance​

The xPack Ninja Build is based on the official Ninja, without any changes.

The current version is based on:

  • Ninja release 1.10.2 from Nov 28th, 2020.

Bug fixes​

  • [#1] on Windows, starting npm/xpm applications via the .cmd forwarders still not fully functional, as it was shown when trying meson; the problem was identified as the missing quotes around the command passed to cmd.exe.

Enhancements​

  • none

Changes​

Compared to the upstream version, the Windows version also supports spawning scripts via cmd.exe /c. These scripts are used by npm/xpm to redirect invocations to the global xPacks store.

Known problems​

  • none

Documentation​

The original documentation is available from:

Supported platforms​

Binaries for Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux are provided.

The binaries were built using the xPack Build Box (XBB), a set of build environments based on slightly older distributions, that should be compatible with most recent systems.

  • x86/x64 GNU/Linux: all binaries were built with GCC 9.3, running in an Ubuntu 12 Docker container
  • arm64/arm GNU/Linux: all binaries were built with GCC 9.3, running in an Ubuntu 16 Docker container
  • x86/x64 Windows: all binaries were built with mingw-w64 GCC 9.3, running in an Ubuntu 12 Docker container
  • x64 macOS: all binaries were built with GCC 9.3, running in a separate folder on macOS 10.10.5.

Build​

The scripts used to build this distribution are in:

  • distro-info/scripts

For the prerequisites and more details on the build procedure, please see the README-MAINTAINER page.

Travis tests​

The first set of tests were performed on Travis, by running a simple script to check if the binaries start on a wide range of platforms and distributions:

Tests​

TBD

Checksums​

The SHA-256 hashes for the files are:


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