[CMake] Getting started with CMake

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Friday 24 August 2012, Russell Wallace wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to get up and running with CMake for a project I'm working
> on. The online documentation seems to describe how to write the
> script/configuration files; I'm trying to first get my head around a
> more basic overview.
> 
> Suppose I have a minimal project called foo, that just consists of a
> single C++ source file, foo.cc. I write the code and put something or
> other in a source distribution file called foo-1.0.tgz. A potential
> user downloads this to a plain-vanilla Linux box. At this stage, the
> user expects to type:
> 
> tar xzf foo-1.0.tgz
> cd foo-1.0
> ./configure

Here he does
cmake .

(or better
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
)

The rest is the same.

Alex