![]() ![]() Still, many open source projects use autotools as a build system. Moreover, autotools can grow so complex that additional tools, such as automake, are required just to manage the intricacies. How many times have you downloaded a source tarball only to find that your system’s version of autotools fails to work? While autotools is quite capable, variants abound, many of which are simply incompatible, and fixing autotools requires knowledge of at least make, m4, and shell scripting. ![]() Learn how to use CMake and see how KDE uses the tool for the project’s next generation build system. This article is Copyright (c) 2006 by Tanner Lovelace, All Rights Reserved.ĬMake is a portable build system: Create a single source definition and build your code on one or many platforms. Here's an article I wrote for the July 2006 issue of Linux Magazine.
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