ninja is an alternative to msbuild designed for fast rebuilds. However there is no IDE support, builds only from the command line.
Comparison between msbuild and ninja for a full build, build time in seconds.
Full Clean Build
msbuild 867.5
Ninja 801.2
Difference -66.3 (-7.6%)
Minor Change
msbuild 43.0
Ninja 14.9
Difference -28.1 (-64.4%)
No Changes
msbuild 23.0
Ninja 6.1
Difference -16.9 (-73.5%)
make.bat was starting to become hard to maintain, this refactors it into separate batch files for each stage of the process.
-Improved detection of msvc2013/2015
-Improved failure handling.
-Added check for working msbuild and C++ compiler
-Added verbose switch to ease trouble shooting.
-Added Check if svn/cmake/git are in the path before using them
-Display the build configuration before asking to download the libraries
-Offer an option to recover an interrupted checkout of the libraries.
-Automatically check out sub-modules in-case they are missing.
Ray Molenkamp