[CMake] CMake+newbie

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2010-04-04 12:51+0530 Prashant Saxena wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is my vary first post here. I have never tried CMake or similar stuff before and my skill set is limited in C/C++
> domain. Please have a little patience with me.
>
> On Linux(kubuntu karmic), I have to convert a makefile using CMake. The current makefile compiles three small .c
> files and produces a single binaries.(release & debug version both)
>
> The binary is a bootloader for python packaging tool "pyinstaller".
>
> Current implementation uses gcc compiler which I should replace with LSB in order to remove the binary dependency
> issue.
>
> I need some guidelines so that I can go forward and compile the bootloader using CMake script. It seems CMake scripts are much smaller and easier to create compare to makefiles but it's just what I have heard and never tried
> myself before.

Start with http://cmake.org/cmake/help/documentation.html.  Especially the
tutorial which gives some useful examples.

Alan
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