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cmake: Selecting a generator within CMakeLists.txt (SO https://stackoverflow.com/q/11269833)
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| cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.31.0) | |
| project(build_with_ninja CXX) | |
| set(CMAKE_GENERATOR "Ninja" CACHE INTERNAL "" FORCE) | |
| message("generator is set to ${CMAKE_GENERATOR}") | |
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| mkdir source | |
| mv CMakeLists.txt source/ | |
| mkdir build | |
| cmake -S source -B build | |
| ls build/Makefile build/build.ninja |
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ok, interesting. So I cannot confirm, but glad that it works for you :)
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I am on MacOS. I ran into this as VSCode seems to work better with ninja(as I don't know how to configure vscode task yet). I used the above to force a switch from makefile to ninja.