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| Here is a feature list of CMake that is in no particular order. There are a lot of small and big things that CMake can do. CMake comes with three main packages CMake, CTest, and CPack.
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| Major (and minor features for CMake)
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| * Color output for make
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| * Progress output for make
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| * Incremental linking support with vs 8,9 and manifests
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| * Auto-rerun of cmake if any cmake input files change (works with vs 8, 9 using ide macros)
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| * Auto depend information for C++, C, and Fortran
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| * Full support for library versions
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| * Full cross platform install system.
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| * Generate project files for major IDE's Visual Studio, Xcode, Eclipse KDevelop
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| ** not tied to make, other generators like ant possible
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| * Ability to add custom rules and targets
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| * Compute link depend information, and chaining of dependent libraries
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| * Works with parallel make and is fast, can build very large projects like KDE on build farms
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| * make help. make foo.s, make foo.E
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| * Advanced RPATH handling, full support for all kinds of static/shared
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| libs and plugins, no more cryptic foo.la libtool "libraries"
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| * Works on many host operating systems (a full list would be good)
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| * Supports many toolchains: GNU, MS, Borland, Sun, also e.g sdcc
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| * Full dependencies: build a target in some directory, and everything
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| this target depends on will be up to date
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| * Extensive test suite and nightly builds/test on many platforms
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| * modular design (e.g. the Find modules, language, toolchain and OS
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| support files) * > easily extendable
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| * just one tool instead of automake+autoconf+libtool+m4+shell+make
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| * it's a native tool, windows devs don't have to deal with POSIX
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| shells, OSX devs can continue to use XCode
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| * can create OSX library frameworks
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| * Beta cross compiling, to Linux, Windows, eCos, supercomputers, no OS, from
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| 8bit uCs to 64bit CPUs
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| * support for chrpath, i.e. changing the RPATH without need to actually
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| link again
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| * CTest
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| * CPack
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| ** packaging with cpack, supports also rpm and deb (need feedback)
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