ninja_syntax

This is a port of ninja_syntax.py to Rust. It allows you to easily emit ninja build files from Rust with a syntax that is pretty similar to the official python module from the ninja repo.

Example

use ninja_syntax::*;
use std::path::Path;

fn main() {
  let mut nw = NinjaWriter(Path::new("build.ninja"));
  nw.comment("Hello this is a comment");
  nw.newline();

  let rule = NinjaRule::new("cc", "cc $in -o $out");
  nw.rule(&rule);

  let mut build = NinjaBuild::new(&["test.o"], "cc");
  build.inputs(&["test.c"]);
  nw.build(&build);

  // write the file to disk
  nw.close().unwrap();
}

Acknowledgements

Originally written by Tobias Hieta, forked and licensed under MIT (with permission from the author) by Tamás Szelei. Most of the code is the same, but slight changes were made to make it more ergonomic and to use textwrap instead of a custom implementation of word wrapping. Finally, to apply the correct indentation (which is two spaces). Originally part of sa_ninja_gen, now being published as a separate crate.