Ginger

Ginger is a simple ninja build file generator for C/C++ projects.

Transforms a ginger file into a ninja file by recursively searching a project directory, creating a complation rule for each source file and an include flag for each directory containing header files.

Usage

ginger.exe -i=build.ginger -o=build.ninja

Ginger File Format

#              comment line
-builddir      build directory
-cc            compiler
-cf            compiler flag
-ll            linker
-lf            linker flag
-target        build target

Sample Ginger Build Script

#compiler
-cc clang

#compiler flags
-cf -Wall
-cf -Werror
-cf -g

#linker
-ll clang

#linker flags
-lf -g

#build directory
-builddir obj

#build target
-target bin/a.out

Possible Produced Ninja Build Script

#ginger ninja file

target = bin/a.out
builddir = obj
cc = clang
cf = -Wall -Werror -g -I "./inc"
ll = clang
lf = -g

rule compile
command = $cc $cf -c $in -o $out

rule link
command = $ll $lf $in -o $out

build $builddir\test.o: $
compile .\test.c

build $target : link $builddir\test.o

default $target