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Just as make clean deletes all the files that a makefile has produced, I would like to do the same with CMake. All too often I find myself manually going through directories removing files like ...
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I code in C/C++ and use a (GNU) Makefile to compile the code. I can do the same with CMake and get a Makefile. However, what is the difference between using a Makefile and CMake to compile the code?
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How do I define a preprocessor variable through CMake? The equivalent code would be #define foo.
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When I try to run a CMake generated makefile to compile my program, I get the error that range based for loops are not supported in C++ 98 mode. I tried adding add_definitions(-std=c++0x) to my ...
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I have a number of projects built using CMake and I'd like to be able to easily switch between using GCC or Clang/LLVM to compile them. I believe (please correct me if I'm mistaken!) that to use Clang ...
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I am using the arm-linux-androideabi-g++ compiler. When I try to compile a simple "Hello, World!" program it compiles fine. When I test it by adding a simple exception handling in that code it works ...
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What are the differences between Autotools, Cmake and Scons?
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I am trying to install a software that uses cmake to install itself. When I run cmake .. on the command line, it gives me following error in the CMakeLists.txt on the line that says find_package(...
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I'm running RHEL 5.1 and use gcc. How I tell cmake to add -pthread to compilation and linking?
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What exactly was going on behind the scenes when for such a small CMakeLists.txt file, cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 2.6) project(Tutorial) add_executable(Tutorial tutorial.cpp) and such a small ...
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I've come across at least 3 ways to do this and I'm wondering which is the idiomatic way. This needs to be done almost universally to any static library. I'm surprised that the Makefile generator in ...
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In CMake, I want to create a directory if it doesn't already exist. How can I do this?
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I am considering switching a cross platform project from separate build management systems in Visual C++, XCode and makefiles to CMake. One essential feature I need is to add automatically all files ...
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I'm trying to create a simple project on CLion. It uses CMake to generate Makefiles to build project (or some sort of it) All I need to is transfer some non-project file (some sort of resource file) ...
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How can I get CMAKE to generate an error on a particular condition. That is, I want something like this: if( SOME_COND ) error( "You can't do that" ) endif()
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Same source, all that, just want a static and shared version both. Easy to do?
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I am a beginner to CMAKE. Below is a simple cmake file which works well in mingw environment windows. The problem is clearly with target_link_libraries() function of CMAKE where I am linking ...
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How to set the warning level for a project (not the whole solution) using CMake? Should work on Visual Studio and GCC. I found various options but most seem either not to work or are not consistent ...
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I need to add Boost libraries into my CMakeLists.txt. How do you do it or how do you add it?
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I'm using CMake to build my project. I have added a unit test binary which is using the Boost unit testing framework. This one binary contains all of the unit tests. I've added that binary to be run ...
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I am new to CMake and a bit confused with the PUBLIC, PRIVATE and INTERFACE keywords related to target_link_libraries(). Documentation mentions that they can be used to specify both the link ...
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How should I structure my project, so that my CMake requires the least amount of maintainance in the future? For example, I don't want to update my CMakeList.txt when I am adding a new folder in my ...
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What is the meaning of the keyword PUBLIC, PRIVATE, and INTERFACE related to CMake's target_include_directories?
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I have a small project with a Makefile which I'm trying to convert to CMake, mostly just to get experience with CMake. For purposes of this example, the project contains a source file (C++, though I ...
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After installing Visual Studio 2015 and running CMake on a previous project, CMake errors stating that it could not find the C compiler. The C compiler identification is unknown The CXX compiler ...
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