Related to https://github.com/nodejs/remark-preset-lint-node/pull/94 PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/33692 Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com> Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de> Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
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Building Node.js with Ninja
The purpose of this guide is to show how to build Node.js using Ninja, as
doing so can be significantly quicker than using make
. Please see
Ninja's site for installation instructions (Unix only).
Ninja is supported in the Makefile. Run ./configure --ninja
to configure
the project to run the regular make
commands with Ninja.
For example, make
will execute ninja -C out/Release
internally
to produce a compiled release binary, It will also execute
ln -fs out/Release/node node
, so that you can execute ./node
at
the project's root.
When running make
, you will see output similar to the following
if the build has succeeded:
ninja: Entering directory `out/Release`
[4/4] LINK node, POSTBUILDS
The bottom line will change while building, showing the progress as
[finished/total]
build steps. This is useful output that make
does not
produce and is one of the benefits of using Ninja. Also, Ninja will likely
compile much faster than even make -j4
(or
-j<number of processor threads on your machine>
). You can still pass the
number of processes to run for Ninja using the environment variable JOBS
.
This will be the equivalent to the -j
parameter in the regular make
:
JOBS=12 make
Producing a debug build
To create a debug build rather than a release build:
./configure --ninja --debug && make