Invoke VS ninja

Compare Invoke vs ninja and see what are their differences.

Invoke

Pythonic task management & command execution. (by pyinvoke)

ninja

a small build system with a focus on speed (by ninja-build)
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4,415 11,303
0.5% 0.9%
0.8 8.7
about 2 months ago 8 days ago
Python C++
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License Apache License 2.0
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Invoke

Posts with mentions or reviews of Invoke. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-12.

ninja

Posts with mentions or reviews of ninja. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-11-28.
  • The Success and Failure of Ninja (2020)
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Nov 2024
    > Ninja is pretty easy to implement for the fun 20% of it and the remaining 80% is "just" some fiddly details.

    There are many ninja generators out there already [1] but writing a simple, custom one shouldn't be too hard [2] and could make sense for some projects.

    BTW, ninja is great but I wish the configuration file had used a more standard format, easier to parse and generate from any language. JSON would have been a better option I think, given the abundance of tooling around it.

    --

    1: https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/wiki/List-of-generators...

    2: https://ninja-build.org/manual.html#ref_ninja_file

  • TypeScript's Successor is Waiting, and You'll Never Want to Turn Back
    1 project | dev.to | 29 Jan 2024
    Under the hood, Rescript uses a build system called Ninja. Ninja is similar to Make, but cross-platform and more minimal/performant.
  • Using Make – writing less Makefile
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Dec 2023
  • Ask HN: What outdated tech are you still using and are perfectly happy with?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Oct 2023
    Really? I thought most new projects were switching to ninja[^1] and have never used it.

    [^1]: https://ninja-build.org/

  • What was used to build C++ programs before Cmake?
    5 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 5 Jul 2023
  • I have spent two whole work days trying to install GLEW
    6 projects | /r/GraphicsProgramming | 3 Jul 2023
    warning: Starting with the September 2023 release, the default triplet for vcpkg libraries will change from x86-windows to the detected host triplet (x64-windows). To resolve this message, add --triplet x86-windows to keep the same behavior. Computing installation plan... The following packages will be built and installed: * egl-registry:x86-windows -> 2022-09-20 glew:x86-windows -> 2.2.0#3 * opengl:x86-windows -> 2022-12-04#3 * opengl-registry:x86-windows -> 2022-09-29#1 * vcpkg-cmake:x64-windows -> 2023-05-04 * vcpkg-cmake-config:x64-windows -> 2022-02-06#1 Additional packages (*) will be modified to complete this operation. Detecting compiler hash for triplet x86-windows... A suitable version of powershell-core was not found (required v7.2.11) Downloading portable powershell-core 7.2.11... Downloading powershell-core... https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v7.2.11/PowerShell-7.2.11-win-x86.zip->C:\vcpkg\downloads\PowerShell-7.2.11-win-x86.zip Downloading https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v7.2.11/PowerShell-7.2.11-win-x86.zip Extracting powershell-core... error: while detecting compiler information: The log file content at "C:\vcpkg\buildtrees\detect_compiler\stdout-x86-windows.log" is: -- Downloading https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/releases/download/v1.10.2/ninja-win.zip -> ninja-win-1.10.2.zip... -- Configuring x86-windows CMake Error at scripts/cmake/vcpkg_execute_required_process.cmake:112 (message): Command failed: C:/vcpkg/downloads/tools/ninja/1.10.2-windows/ninja.exe -v Working Directory: C:/vcpkg/buildtrees/detect_compiler/x86-windows-rel/vcpkg-parallel-configure Error code: 1 See logs for more information: C:\vcpkg\buildtrees\detect_compiler\config-x86-windows-rel-CMakeCache.txt.log C:\vcpkg\buildtrees\detect_compiler\config-x86-windows-out.log
  • Installer script for CMake, Ninja, and Meson
    4 projects | /r/bash | 1 Jun 2023
    I thought I would share my custom installer script for the latest GitHub versions of CMake, Ninja, and Meson.
  • Building and Running Pidgin and Finch 3
    3 projects | dev.to | 6 May 2023
    Now that you have your build system all generated you can go ahead and build everything. By default Meson will use Ninja as the build tool. Ninja is similar to Make but much much faster. You can also generate additional build systems but that's outside of the scope of this post.
  • Is there any way to configure my project so I can work on it on both Windows and MacOS?
    2 projects | /r/sdl | 16 Apr 2023
    There are also some other tools like https://ninja-build.org/ that you might prefer using instead
  • Bitdefender blocked Explorer.exe and Ninja.exe has been quarantined
    1 project | /r/antivirus | 16 Feb 2023
    I got Ninja from https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja, latest release. I'm assuming this is a false positive?

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Invoke and ninja you can also consider the following projects:

doit - CLI task management & automation tool

meson - The Meson Build System

Nox - Flexible test automation for Python

SCons

PlatformIO - Your Gateway to Embedded Software Development Excellence :alien:

Bazel - a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system

PyBuilder - Software build automation tool for Python.

BitBake - The official bitbake Git is at https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/. Do not open issues or file pull requests here.

buildout - Buildout is a deployment automation tool written in and extended with Python

CMake - Mirror of CMake upstream repository

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