ninja: error: loading 'build.ninja': The system cannot find the file specified

Question

I installed chocolatey and then ninja using choco install ninja. It got installed at C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\ninja\tools.

I added the path to the Environment variables too. When I launch ninja now, it throws and error:

ninja: error: loading 'build.ninja': The system cannot find the file specified.

I just typed ninja on the powerShell prompt and this error is thrown! Does anyone have any idea of what's happening actually?

Answer 1

The ninja build system on your computer worked correctly! That error will occur if you run ninja with no arguments. If you add some arguments for it, such as ninja --version and then, It worked!