CMake
Sign in to saveCMake is a free, cross-platform, software development tool for building applications via compiler-independent instructions. It also can automate testing, packaging and installation. It runs on a variety of platforms and supports many programming languages.
Key facts
- Software.name
- CMake
- Software.logo
- CMake logo.svg
- Software.logo size
- 96px
- Software.screenshot
- Cmake with Clang screenshot.png
- Software.developer
- Andy Cedilnik, Bill Hoffman, Brad King, Ken Martin, Alexander Neundorf
- Software.programming language
- C, C++
- Software.operating system
- Cross-platform
- Software.genre
- Software development tools
- Software.license
- BSD-3-Clause
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Encyclopedic overview
27 sectionsContents
- History
- Name
- Features
- Generators and IDE support
- Build targets
- Hierarchical configuration
- Separate build tree
- Dependency management
- Flexible project structure
- Compiler feature detection
- Compiler support
- Packaging
- GUI
- Precompiled headers and modules
- JSON strings
- Language
- Command syntax
- Implementation
- Additional tools
- Adoption
- Build process
- Examples
- Hello world
- Include
- See also
- References
- External links
CMake is a free, cross-platform, software development tool for building applications via compiler-independent instructions. It also can automate testing, packaging and installation. It runs on a variety of platforms and supports many programming languages.
As a meta-build tool, CMake configures native build tools which in turn build the codebase. CMake generates configuration files for other build tools based on CMake-specific configuration files. The other tools are responsible for more directly building, using the generated files. A single set of CMake-specific configuration files can be used to build a codebase using the native build tools of multiple platforms.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “CMake” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.