SDK • Re: SDK install with pico_setup.sh fails.

it was a bug introduced when moving the script from Makefiles over to Ninja

What is the rationale for moving from 'make' to 'ninja' for command line builds ?

While it shouldn't matter much which tool is actually used, Raspberry Pi's generic 'cmake' build instructions have long been -Moving to 'ninja' is at odds with most Raspberry Pi and third-party guides, tutorials and documentation, including Raspberry Pi's "Getting Started" guides, and is likely to lead to some confusion.

That's going to be particularly so when someone manually tries to build something with 'make' when it has been configured for and built with 'ninja'. Perhaps because that's what they have previously and historically done, but especially so when that's what the Raspberry Pi documentation tells them to do.

I presume Raspberry Pi's change to using 'ninja' is a done deal and we are stuck with that. In which case I believe it is essential to get all Raspberry Pi guides and documentation updated to reflect that.

Unfortunately there's little which can be done about the huge amount of third-party stuff, including posts to these forums, which has become outdated and incorrect because of this change.

Statistics: Posted by hippy — Mon Jun 23, 2025 12:31 pm

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