Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd edition) - Version 7.6-systemd

Chapter 13. Programming

CMake-3.0.1

Introduction to CMake

The CMake package contains a modern toolset used for generating Makefiles. It is a successor of the auto-generated configure script and aims to be platform- and compiler-independent. A significant user of CMake is KDE since version 4.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 systemd platform.

Package Information

  • Download (HTTP): http://www.cmake.org/files/v3.0/cmake-3.0.1.tar.gz

  • Download MD5 sum: e2e05d84cb44a42f1371d9995631dcf5

  • Download size: 5.3 MB

  • Estimated disk space required: 237 MB (additional 195 MB for tests)

  • Estimated build time: 1.8 SBU (additional 4.4 SBU for tests)

CMake Dependencies

Recommended

cURL-7.37.1 and libarchive-3.1.2

Optional

Qt-4.8.6 or Qt-5.3.1 (for the Qt-based GUI), Subversion-1.8.10 (for testing), and Sphinx (for building documents)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/cmake

Installation of CMake

Install CMake by running the following commands: 

./bootstrap --prefix=/usr       \
            --system-libs       \
            --mandir=/share/man \
            --docdir=/share/doc/cmake-3.0.1 &&
make

To test the results, issue: bin/ctest.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--system-libs: This switch forces the build system to link against Zlib, Bzip2, cURL, Expat and libarchive installed on the system.

--qt-gui: This switch enables building of the Qt-based GUI for CMake.

--qt-qmake=/usr/bin/qmake-qt5: Use this switch if you have both Qt4 and Qt5 installed but wish to build the Qt5 based GUI (it defaults to Qt4 one).

Contents

Installed Programs: ccmake, cmake, cmake-gui (optional), cpack and ctest
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: /usr/share/cmake-3.0 and /usr/share/doc/cmake-3.0.1

Short Descriptions

ccmake

is a curses based interactive frontend to cmake.

cmake

is the makefile generator.

cmake-gui

(optional) is the Qt-based frontent to cmake.

cpack

is the CMake packaging program.

ctest

is a testing utility for cmake-generated build trees.

Last updated on 2014-08-23 10:08:59 -0700