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| CMake is a mature tool with many features, both big and small. Many go unnoticed or are taken for granted. Help us create a comprehensive list of features that make CMake really cool. Please list your addition under the appropriate package: CMake, CTest, or CPack. | | {{CMake/Template/Moved}} |
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| == CMake Features ==
| | This page has moved [https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/community/wikis/doc/cmake/Really-Cool-CMake-Features here]. |
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| * Color output for make
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| * Progress output for make
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| * Incremental linking support with vs 8,9 and manifests
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| * Auto-rerun of cmake if any cmake input files change (works with vs 8, 9 using ide macros)
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| * Auto depend information for C++, C, and Fortran
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| ** [http://graphviz.org/ Graphviz] output for visualizing dependency trees
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| * Full support for library versions
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| * Full cross platform install system.
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| * Generate project files for major IDEs: Visual Studio, Xcode, Eclipse, KDevelop
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| ** not tied to make, other [http://portablegeneratorsforsale.net/ portable generators] like ant possible
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| * Ability to add custom rules and targets
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| * Compute link depend information, and chaining of dependent libraries
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| * Works with parallel make and is fast, can build very large projects like KDE on build farms
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| * make help, make foo.s, make foo.E, VERBOSE=1 make PROJECT/fast
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| * Advanced RPATH handling, full support for all kinds of static/shared libs and plugins, no more cryptic foo.la libtool "libraries"
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| * support for chrpath, i.e. changing the RPATH without need to actually link again
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| * Works on many host operating systems (a full list would be good)
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| * Supports many toolchains: GNU, MS, Borland, Sun, also e.g sdcc
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| * Beta cross compiling, to Linux, Windows, eCos, supercomputers, no OS, from 8bit uCs to 64bit CPUs
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| * Full dependencies: build a target in some directory, and everything this target depends on will be up to date
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| * Extensive test suite and nightly builds/test on many platforms
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| * modular design (e.g. the Find modules, language, toolchain and OS support files) * > easily extendable
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| * just one tool instead of automake+autoconf+libtool+m4+shell+make
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| * Good scripting language that supports:
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| ** control structures (conditional, iterative)
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| ** regular expressions, eliminating need for grep+awk+sed+perl
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| ** macros (similar to functions, with counted or vararg parameters)
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| ** portable commands for file and directory manipulation
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| * Extensive auxiliary cmake modules for finding and simplifying use of popular libraries (boost, sdl, fltk, etc.) and utilities (swig, etc).
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| * Comes with a GUI layer for easy edition of input variables, both Curses and QT based options.
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| * Command line support.
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| * it's a native tool, windows devs don't have to deal with POSIX shells, OSX devs can continue to use XCode
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| * .tar.gz archiving available on all platforms. No need to chase down tar/gzip for Windows.
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| * can create OSX library frameworks
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| * can create OSX application bundles
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| * scales well for really, really big projects like KDE
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| == CTest Features ==
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| * Run all or sub-sets of tests for a project
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| * Submit testing results to Dart 1,2 and CDash
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| * Run tests that build and run --build-and-test command
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| * support coverage with gcc, and bullseye coverage tools
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| * support memory checking with valgrind, purify, and bounds checker
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| == CPack Features ==
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| * Simple Declarative creation of packages/installers using CMake+CPack
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| * Create Source or Binary packages
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| * A wealth of supported formats:
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| ** Create professional windows installers with [http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page NSIS]
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| ** Create tar.gz tar.Z on any platform
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| ** Create self extracting tar.gz .sh files
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| ** Create rpm
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| ** Create Debian .deb files
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| ** Create Cygwin setup packages
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