-- create a new ninja file
file = ninja.new('build.ninja')

--[[
command line parsing e.g.
shogun --cxx=clang++
would make this cxx variable return
clang++ and if it doesn't exist then
g++ will be returned
--]]
cxx = shogun.get('cxx', 'g++')

-- same thing, except --debug would lead to true if passed,
-- false otherwise.
debug = shogun.get('debug', false)
lto = shogun.get('lto', false)

-- write the two variables to the ninja file
file.variable('ninja_required_version', '1.3')
file.variable('builddir', 'obj')

-- shogun.includes(compiler, directories)
-- creates a generic way of handling include files
-- from MSVC, Clang, or GCC.
include_directories = shogun.includes(cxx, { 'gears', '.' })

-- etc..
-- many more functions in shogun that are compiler
-- agnostic/generic to abstract away compiler choice