Build with CMake. Build with Confidence.

CMake is an open-source, cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software. CMake is used to control the software compilation process using simple platform and compiler independent configuration files, and generate native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in the compiler environment of your choice. The suite of CMake tools were created by Kitware in response to the need for a powerful, cross-platform build environment for open-source projects such as ITK and VTK.

CMake is part of Kitware’s collection of commercially supported open-source platforms for software development.

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Notable Applications Using CMake

Netflix

“…CMake, CTest, and CDash have proven to be invaluable tools for us to build multiplatform code, track changes, run tests, and improve code quality by performing code coverage and memory leak analysis.”

Inria

“I am thankful for CMake’s shadow builds feature. For a project like SOFA, which has many optional features and possible option combinations, being able to quickly test a modification on several typical setups on my machine before pushing a significant change to the repository is a very valuable security. This is especially true for a complex project like ours.”

The HDF Group

“CMake, CTest, and CDash were the tools that we desperately needed. With the help of our user community, we added the CMake build system for all HDF products. We rely on CMake for HDF software being successfully built and tested on platforms that range from supercomputers to Windows desktops and tablets.”

ReactOS

“…in early 2010 a decision was made to look for a third party solution instead of continuing to expend time and effort maintaining RBuild. CMake was an early favorite and while the transition was not without its bumps, it has allowed the project to not only increase the number of compilers that could be used to build ReactOS, it also set the stage for significantly decreasing build times, making development faster and easier.”

KDE

“Our working relationship aside, CMake has greatly improved the process of building KDE. Projects using CMake take less time to get started, since there is less time spent fighting with the build system. One KDE developer says, “CMake doesn’t make you want to shoot yourself with a nailgun when building your project anymore.”

Second Life

“A great technology choice that our community helped us make was moving to CMake, a cross-platform build tool, which makes it much simpler to maintain makefiles for many different platforms.”

Allegro library
Armadillo
Avidemux
awesome
BCI2000
Blender
BRL-CAD
Bullet Physics Engine
CGAL
Chipmunk physics engine
CLion
Compiz
Conky
cURL
Deal.II
Doomsday Engine
Dust Racing 2D
Drishti
Ettercap
Falcon (programming language)
FlightGear Flight Simulator
GDCM
Geant4
Gmsh
GNU Radio
GROMACS

Hiawatha (web server)
Hypertable
Hugin
iCub robot and YARP
IGSTK
ITK
KDE SC 4
KiCad
libpng
LAPACK
LLVM and Clang
LMMS
Mir
MiKTeX
MLPACK
MuseScore
MySQL and MariaDB
OGRE
OpenCV
OpenCog
OpenCPN
OpenSceneGraph
OpenSync
Orthanc
Point Cloud Library
Poppler

PvPGN
QGIS
Qt
Raw Therapee
ReactOS
ROOT
ROS
Ryzom
Scribus
SDL
Second Life
SFML
Spring RTS
SuperTux
Synergy
Slicer
Stellarium
Trilinos
Vortexje
VTK and ParaView
VXL
zlib
PCSX2
Zdoom
ZeroMQ