[CMake] Getting Started Questions

Filipe Sousa filipe at ipb.pt
Tue Jul 11 04:36:56 EDT 2006


Peter Kahn wrote:
> I've been looking for a good cross platform build/project definition
> system for some time.  I have built my own, looked at Scons and Cmake. 
> Cmake's support for the various IDEs upon which my developers wish to
> work has tipped the balance.  I've read through "Mastering Cmake" and am
> chomping at the bit to jump in and start trying to figure out what the
> dance between cmake and my project's code will look like.  I'm trying to
> go cautiously so I don't wind up fighting against cmake by not doing
> things in the cmake way.  To minimize the risk of this I have downloaded
> VTK and am looking to that as a Best-Practices example. 
> 
> Are there any other methods of for me to better understand cmake idioms
> in a large scale project?  I'm trying to do that Bruce Eckel 'Thinking
> in Cmake" kind of thing....

You'd better start with simple projects. You can find here
http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Tests/?root=CMake
tests that covers most commands

> Thanks for the help.
> -- 
> Peter Kahn
> citizenkahn at gmail.com <mailto:citizenkahn at gmail.com>
> citizenkahn at jabber80.com <mailto:citizenkahn at jabber80.com>,
> pkahnpie1 at AIM, skype: citizenkahn
> http://analogoustendencies.blogspot.com


-- 
Filipe Sousa

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