Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 8.3

Chapter 13. Programming

CMake-3.12.1

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-8.3 platform.

Package Information

  • Download (HTTP): https://cmake.org/files/v3.12/cmake-3.12.1.tar.gz

  • Download MD5 sum: 10109246a51102bfda45ff3935275fbf

  • Download size: 7.7 MB

  • Estimated disk space required: 400 MB (add 416 MB for tests)

  • Estimated build time: 2.6 SBU (add 3.0 SBU for tests, both using parallelism=4)

CMake Dependencies

Required

libuv-1.22.0

Recommended

cURL-7.61.0 and libarchive-3.3.2

Optional

Qt-5.11.1 (for the Qt-based GUI), Subversion-1.10.2 (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: 

sed -i '/"lib64"/s/64//' Modules/GNUInstallDirs.cmake &&

./bootstrap --prefix=/usr        \
            --system-libs        \
            --mandir=/share/man  \
            --no-system-jsoncpp  \
            --no-system-librhash \
            --docdir=/share/doc/cmake-3.12.1 &&
make

To test the results, issue: bin/ctest -j<N> -O cmake-3.12.1-test.log, where <N> is an integer between 1 and the number of system cores.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

sed ... Modules/GNUInstallDirs.cmake: This command disables applications using cmake from attempting to install files in /usr/lib64/.

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

--no-system-jsoncpp: This switch removes the JSON-C++ library from the list of system libraries. A bundled version of that library is used instead.

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

Contents

Installed Programs: ccmake, cmake, cmake-gui (optional), cpack, and ctest
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: /usr/share/cmake-3.12 and /usr/share/doc/cmake-3.12.1

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 2018-08-18 14:53:19 -0700