CMake

Welcome to CMake, the cross-platform, open-source make system. CMake is used to control the software compilation process using simple platform and compiler independent configuration files. CMake generates native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in the compiler environment of your choice. CMake is quite sophisticated: it is possible to support complex environments requiring system configuration, pre-processor generation, code generation, and template instantiation.

CMake

Tutorials

• Cross-Platform Software Development Using CMake
  Tutorial that should get anybody up to speed with CMake

• How to write platform independent installation instructions

• How to write platform checks with CMake
  Describes how to implement platform or configure checks with CMake.

• How to find installed software with CMake
  Describes how to search for and then use software packages with CMake.

• How to find and use existing frameworks on OS X A quick example to help OS X users find frameworks automatically.

• How to build KDE4 software with cmake

• Qt with CMake Explains how to use CMake to build software with Qt4 and how to use it for Qt3 and KDE3 applications

• How to use CMake for building software with wxWidgets

• Cross compiling with CMake

• Chicken Scheme - is a Scheme-to-C compiler which supports all major C compilers and OSs. Its extensively commented build system is easy to understand and demonstrates many non-trivial CMake features, e.g. how to generate source files and executables that are needed by the build itself, how to use ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND to drive languages other than C/C++ and more.

Development Topics

• Useful CMake Variables
• Platform Dependent Issues
• Various Editors / IDEs support
• Generator Specific Information
• Macros contributed by Users
• For CMake Hackers

Converters from other buildsystems to CMake

All converters listed here are not "complete", i.e. the generated CMake files are not 100% finished, in all cases some work is left for the developer.

• am2cmake (requires Ruby) Converts automake/autotools/libtool based projects to CMake. This one has been used for converting the KDE buildsystem to CMake. It's specialized in converting KDE 4 and KDE 3, but works also for other projects.

• Alternative Automake2CMake (requires PHP) Converts KDevelop projects that use automake to CMake.

• qmake converter (requires Ruby) Converts projects that use Qt's qmake.

• gencmake (requires Ruby) Creates basic CMakeLists.txt files from looking at the existing files.

• vcproj2cmake.rb (requires Ruby) Creates CMakeLists.txt files by extracting info from Visual Studio project files.

More Information

• Articles about CMake

• Where can I download CMake?

• What are some projects using CMake?

• CMake Mailing List

• CMake Documentation

• A Simple CMake Example

• CMake Frequently asked questions

CTest

Tutorials

• Testing With CTest
  Introduces to testing with CTest, submitting dashboards, and using CMake to add tests to the test system.

• CTest Scripting
  Describes the scripting with CTest which can significantly simplify and automate testing and submitting dashboards.

• Generating Input Files For CTest
  Describe more in details the concepts behind testing with CTest and also explans how to use CTest without using CMake.

More Information

• Configuring CTest Submission Methods
• CTest Nightly, Experimental, Continuous, ...
• CTest:Coverage
• Media:CTest Running Modes.pdf
• CTest Frequently asked questions

CPack

Tutorials

• Packaging with CPack
  Introduction to CPack, installing and packaging of software.

More Information

• CPack Generator Information

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