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

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?



Solution 1:[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!

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