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| author | Balakrishna Avulapati <bavulapati@gmail.com> | 2022-02-25 06:20:41 +0300 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-02-25 06:20:41 +0300 |
| commit | d5e94fa7121c9d424588f0e1a388f8c72c784622 (patch) | |
| tree | dee2d828a720758bc963aed3ee8575a86b1b70e6 /BUILDING.md | |
| parent | 626367c4e3b57dab3e6c1e9926cc24e2d662e14a (diff) | |
doc: make building with ninja more discoverable
Building with ninja would speed up the build
We have the documenation about building with ninja,
but not easily discoverable.
And present this early to the contributors.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41840
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Darshan Sen <raisinten@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Mestery <mestery@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Filip Skokan <panva.ip@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <midawson@redhat.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | BUILDING.md | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/BUILDING.md b/BUILDING.md index 424b2a7adc9..32cc5fc260d 100644 --- a/BUILDING.md +++ b/BUILDING.md @@ -273,6 +273,10 @@ $ ./configure $ make -j4 ``` +We can speed up the builds by using [Ninja](https://ninja-build.org/). For more +information, see +[Building Node.js with Ninja](doc/contributing/building-node-with-ninja.md). + The `-j4` option will cause `make` to run 4 simultaneous compilation jobs which may reduce build time. For more information, see the [GNU Make Documentation](https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Parallel.html). |