Ninja not found by CMake

Question

I\'m trying to build some code I got from GitHub using CMake, but keep getting the followings errors:

CMake Error: CMake was unable to find a build program c         


        

Answer 1

If ninja really exists in $PATH and it still does not work, you should check the permission of the executable file via ls -l /PATH/TO/NINJA. Make sure others have read and execute permissions (like '-rwxr-xr-x').

See also: 0013910: Ninja generator initialization fails if /usr/bin/ninja is not world-readable