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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 and many go unnoticed or are taken for granted. The idea is to try to create a comprehensive list of cool features both great and small. CMake comes with three main packages CMake, CTest, and CPack, so the features are listed under each of those packages.
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| == CMake Features ==
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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 IDEs: 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 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 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 support files) * > easily extendable
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| * just one tool instead of automake+autoconf+libtool+m4+shell+make
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| * provides regular expressions, eliminating need for grep+awk+sed+perl
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| * portable commands for file and directory manipulation
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| * .tar.gz archiving available on all platforms. No need to chase down tar/gzip for Windows.
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| * it's a native tool, windows devs don't have to deal with POSIX shells, OSX devs can continue to use XCode
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| * can create OSX library frameworks
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| * can create OSX application bundles
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| * Beta cross compiling, to Linux, Windows, eCos, supercomputers, no OS, from 8bit uCs to 64bit CPUs
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| * support for chrpath, i.e. changing the RPATH without need to actually link again
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| == CTest Features ==
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| * Run all or sub-sets of tests for a project
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| * Submit testing results to Dart 1,2 and CDash
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| * Run tests that build and run --build-and-test command
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| == CPack Features ==
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| * Create professional windows installers with NSIS
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| * Create tar.gz tar.Z on any platform
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| * Create self extracting tar.gz .sh files
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| * Create rpm
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| * Create Debian .deb files
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| * Create Cygwin setup packages
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