Make (or rather a Makefile) is a buildsystem – it drives the compiler and other build tools to build your code. CMake is a generator of buildsystems. It can produce Makefiles, it can produce Ninja build files, it can produce KDEvelop or Xcode projects, it can produce Visual Studio solutions. From the same starting point, … Read more
With CMake, it’s generally recommended to do an “out of source” build. Create your CMakeLists.txt in the root of your project. Then from the root of your project: mkdir Release cd Release cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .. make And for Debug (again from the root of your project): mkdir Debug cd Debug cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug .. make Release … Read more
CMake 3.X CMake 3.X offers a ‘clean’ target. cmake –build C:/foo/build/ –target clean From the CMake docs for 3.0.2: –clean-first = Build target ‘clean’ first, then build. (To clean only, use –target ‘clean’.) CMake 2.X There is no cmake clean in CMake version 2.X I usually build the project in a single folder like “build”. … Read more