Build Patterns

Here's a collection of notes on ways to express various build problems in Ninja format.

TODO: flesh this out more (e.g., summarize the mailing list discussion with a best practice declaration here).

Precompiled Headers

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ninja-build/DkNRElbw0Zo/discussion

Including SCM (Git/SVN/etc) version info in build output

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ninja-build/txeosqGMc6k/discussion

Rebuilding dependents of shared objects only when API changes

http://neugierig.org/software/blog/2012/07/gyp-toc.html
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ninja-build/5wiHeCgFs58/USPwhlRM_04J

Windows .lib files

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ninja-build/L5jyWJFOAuM/discussion

Dependencies on generated header files

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ninja-build/2C1PISyR1Yk/discussion

Java

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ninja-build/AS-gvHMtU30/discussion

Vala

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ninja-build/Wtg-TLSDVKc/discussion