Английская Википедия:CMake

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In software development, CMake is cross-platform free and open-source software for build automation, testing, packaging and installation of software by using a compiler-independent method. CMake is not a build system itself; it generates another system's build files. It supports directory hierarchies and applications that depend on multiple libraries. It can invoke native build environments such as Make, Qt Creator, Ninja, Android Studio, Apple's Xcode, and Microsoft Visual Studio. It has minimal dependencies, requiring only a C++ compiler on its own build system.

CMake is distributed as free and open-source software under a permissive BSD-3-Clause license.

History

CMake development began in 1999, in response to the need for a cross-platform build environment for the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK). The project is funded by the United States National Library of Medicine as part of the Visible Human Project. It was partially inspired by Шаблон:Code, a predecessor to CMake, which was made by Ken Martin and other developers to support building of the Visualization Toolkit (VTK). pcmaker was a C program that converted Make files into MS Windows' NMake counterparts. At Kitware, Bill Hoffman blended components of pcmaker with his own ideas, striving to mimic the functionality of Unix configure scripts. CMake was first implemented in 2000 and further developed in 2001.

Historically CMake was conceived with the following major features in mind:

• depending only on system C++ compiler, meaning no third-party libraries
• to be able to generate Visual Studio IDE input files
• capable of producing executable and linkable binary libraries (static and shared)
• to be able to run build-time code generators
• separate source/build file trees
• system checks and introspection (similar to Autotools): what system could and could not do
• automatically scan C/C++ deps
• cross-platform

Because of these constraints CMake didn't choose to use Tcl (popular at the time) scripting language as its default and instead, developers decided to create a simpler scripting language.

Continued development and improvements were fueled by the incorporation of CMake into developers’ own systems, including the VXL Project,Шаблон:Clarify the CABLE features added by Brad King,Шаблон:Clarify and GE Corporate R&D for support of DART.Шаблон:Clarify Additional features were created when VTK transitioned to CMake for its build environment and for supporting ParaView.

Version 3.0 was released in June 2014. It has been described as the beginning of "Modern CMake". Experts now advise to avoid variables in favor of targets and properties. The commands Шаблон:Code, Шаблон:Code, Шаблон:Code, Шаблон:Code that were at the core of CMake 2 should now be replaced by target-specific commands.

Features

Separate build tree

One of its major features is the ability to place compiler outputs (such as object files) into a build tree which is located outside of the source tree. This enables multiple builds from the same source tree and cross-compilation. Separate source and build files ensure that removing a build directory will not affect source files and prevents clutter which might confuse version control systems.

Dependency management

CMake keeps track and recompiles all the upstream dependencies of a given sub-module if its sources are changed.Шаблон:Efn

Flexible project structure

CMake can locate system-wide and user-specified executables, files, and libraries. These locations are stored in a cache, which can then be tailored before generating the target build files. The cache can be edited with a graphical editor, which is shipped with CMake.

Complicated directory hierarchies and applications that rely on several libraries are well supported by CMake. For instance, CMake is able to accommodate a project that has multiple toolkits, or libraries that each have multiple directories. In addition, CMake can work with projects that require executables to be created before generating code to be compiled for the final application. Its open-source, extensible design allows CMake to be adapted as necessary for specific projects.

IDE configuration support

CMake can generate project files for several popular IDEs, such as Microsoft Visual Studio, Xcode, and Eclipse CDT. It can also produce build scripts for MSBuild or NMake on Windows; Unix Make on Unix-like platforms such as Linux, macOS, and Cygwin; and Ninja on both Windows and Unix-like platforms.

Compiler feature detection

CMake allows specification of features that the compiler is required to support in order to get the target program or library compiled.

Compilers

CMake supports an extensive list of compilers, including: Apple Clang, Clang, GNU GCC, MSVC, Oracle Developer Studio, and Intel C++ Compiler.

Packaging system

Even though CMake is not a package manager, it provides basic modules (see CPack) functions for installing binaries and package information declared by the Шаблон:Code script to be used by consumer CMake projects. The package may also be packed into an archive file for package manager or installer supported by a target platform. Third-party packages may also be imported via configured CMake files which are either provided by the same third-party or created manually.Шаблон:Rp

GUI

Cmake may be run by using a ncurses program like Шаблон:Code that can be used to configure projects via command-line interface.

Build process

The build of a program or library with CMake is a two-stage process. First, build files (usually scripts) are created (generated) from configuration files (CMakeLists.txt scripts) written in CMake language. Then the platform's native build tools that can read these build files (native toolchain) are invoked either manually externally or via Шаблон:Code for actual building of programs (build targets). The generator specified by the user on the commandline determines which build tool chain to use.

Generators

The build files are configured depending on the generator used (e.g. Unix Makefiles for make) and associated toolchain files. Advanced users can also create and incorporate additional makefile generators to support their specific compiler and OS needs. Generated files are typically placed (by using Шаблон:Code's flag) into a folder outside of the source's one (out of source build), e.g., Шаблон:Code.

Each build project in turn contains its ownШаблон:Code file and Шаблон:Code directory in every project (sub-)directory of included by the Шаблон:Code command, helping to avoid or speed up regeneration when it is run repeatedly.

The generation process and the output can be fine-tuned via target properties. Previously it was done via Шаблон:Code-prefixed global variables that are also used to configure CMake itself and to set up initial defaults. The older approach is discouraged now.

Types of build targets

Depending on CMakeLists.txt configuration the build files may be either executables, libraries (e.g. Шаблон:Code, Шаблон:Code etc.), object file libraries or pseudo-targets (including aliases). CMake can produce object files that can be linked against by executable binaries/libraries, avoiding dynamic (run-time) linking and using static (compile-time) linking instead. This enables flexibility in configuration of various optimizations.

Build dependencies may be determined automatically.

Precompiled headers

It's possible to generate precompiled headers by using CMake since version 3.6.

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CMakeLists.txt

CMake has a relatively simple interpreted, imperative scripting language. It supports variables, string manipulation methods, arrays, function/macro declarations, and module inclusion (importing). CMake Language commands (or directives) are read by Шаблон:Code from a file named Шаблон:Code. This file specifies the source files and build parameters, which CMake will place in the project's build specification (such as a Makefile). Additionally, Шаблон:Code-suffixed files can contain scripts used by CMake.

To generate a project's build files, one invokes Шаблон:Code in terminal and specifies the directory that contains Шаблон:Code. This file contains one or more commands in the form of Шаблон:Code.

Command syntax

The arguments of the commands are whitespace-separated and can include keywords to separate groups of arguments. Commands can take keywords. For instance, in the command Шаблон:Code the keyword is Шаблон:Code. It serves as a delimiter between the list of source files and some other options.

Examples of commands that CMake offers to specify targets and their dependencies and which serve as the starting point of the CMakeLists.txt:

• Шаблон:Code— declares an executable binary target with sources (depend on language chosen) to be built
• Шаблон:Code — the same but for a library
• Шаблон:Code — adds dependencies etc.

JSON strings

CMake supports extracting values into variables from JSON-data strings (since version 3.19).

Internals

The CMake scripting language is implemented by using Yacc and Lex generators.Шаблон:Efn

The executable programs CMake, CPack, and CTest are written in the C++ programming language.Шаблон:Efn

Much of CMake's functionality is implemented in modules that are written in the CMake language.

Since release 3.0, CMake's documentation uses reStructuredText markup. HTML pages and man pages are generated by the Sphinx documentation generator.

Modules and tools

CMake ships with numerous Шаблон:Code modules and tools. These facilitate work such as finding dependencies (both built-in and external, e.g. Шаблон:Code modules), testing the toolchain environment and executables, packaging releases (Шаблон:Code module and Шаблон:Code command), and managing dependencies on external projects (Шаблон:Code module):

• ctest — is used for target testing commands specified by CMakeLists.txt
• ccmake and cmake-gui — tweaks and updates configuration variables intended for the native build system
• cpack — helps to package software

CPack

CPack is a packaging system for software distributions. It is tightly integrated with CMake but can function without it.

It can be used to generate:

• Linux RPM, deb, and gzip packages (for both binaries and source code).
• NSIS files (for Microsoft Windows).
• macOS packages.

Adoption

CMake has been very widely adopted among commercial, open source, and academic software projects. A few notable users include Android NDK, Netflix, Inria, MySQL, Boost (C++ libraries), KeePassXC, KDE, KiCAD, FreeCAD, Webkit, Blender, Biicode, ReactOS, Apache Qpid, the ATLAS experiment, and Second Life.

Examples

Hello world

The following source code files demonstrate how to build a simple hello world program written in C++ by using CMake.

Example 1

// hello.cpp
#include <iostream>

int main()
{
    std::cout << "Hello, world!" << std::endl;
    return 0;
}

# CMakeLists.txt
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5)
project(HelloWorld CXX)
add_executable(hello hello.cpp)

Example 2

// hello.cpp
#include <iostream>
#include "hello_heading.h"

int main()
{
    for (int i = 0; i < Times; i++)
    {
        std::cout << "Hello, world!" << std::endl;
    }
    return 0;
}

// hello_heading.h
#ifndef HELLO_HEADING_H_
#define HELLO_HEADING_H_
const int Times = 10;
#endif

# CMakeLists.txt
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5)
project(HelloWorld CXX)
include_directories(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR})
add_executable(hello hello.cpp)

Shell commands to run CMake on a Linux system (to be entered in the directory that contains the two files above):

cmake -B build .          # Configure the build directory.
cmake --build build       # Build the program in the build directory.
./build/hello             # Run the program (outputs "Hello, world!")

See also

• Шаблон:Section link
• configure script
• Make
• Monorepo
• Qmake

External links

• Шаблон:Official website