The 4th edition CMake books have arrived and you can order them from http://kitware.com/products/cmakebook.html They should show up on Amazon in the near future as well. A summary table of contents is included below.
Thanks Ken CHAPTER 1 WHY CMAKE? 1 1.1 The History of CMake 3 1.2 Why Not Use Autoconf? 3 1.3 Why Not Use JAM, qmake, SCons, or ANT? 4 1.4 Why Not Script It Yourself? 4 1.5 On What Platforms Does CMake Run? 5 CHAPTER 2 GETTING STARTED 7 2.1 Getting and Installing CMake on Your Computer 7 2.2 UNIX and Mac Binary Installations 7 2.3 Windows Binary Installation: 8 2.4 Building CMake Yourself 8 2.5 Basic CMake Usage and Syntax 8 2.6 Hello World for CMake 9 2.7 How to Run CMake? 11 2.8 Editing CMakeLists Files 18 2.9 Setting Initial Values for CMake 19 CHAPTER 3 KEY CONCEPTS 21 3.1 Main Structures 21 3.2 Targets 24 3.3 Source Files 25 3.4 Directories, Generators, Tests, and Properties 26 3.5 Variables and Cache Entries 27 3.6 Build Configurations 30 CHAPTER 4 WRITING CMAKELISTS FILES 33 4.1 CMake Syntax 33 4.2 Basic Commands 34 4.3 Flow Control 34 4.4 Regular Expressions 41 4.5 Checking Versions of CMake 43 4.6 Using Modules 44 4.7 Specifying Optimized or Debug Libraries with a Target 49 4.8 Shared Libraries and Loadable Modules 50 4.9 Shared Library Versioning 55 4.10 Installing Files 56 4.11 Advanced Commands 66 CHAPTER 5 PACKAGING WITH CPACK 69 5.1 CPack Basics 69 5.2 CPack Source Packages 74 5.3 CPack Installer commands 74 5.4 CPack for Windows Installer NSIS 76 5.5 CPack for Cygwin Setup 83 5.6 CPack for Apple OSX PackageMaker 86 5.7 CPack for OSX X11 applications 89 5.8 CPack for Debian packages 91 5.9 CPack for RPM 92 5.10 CPack files 93 CHAPTER 6 CONVERTING EXISTING SYSTEMS TO CMAKE 95 6.1 Source Code Directory Structures 95 6.2 Build Directories 97 6.3 Useful CMake Commands when Converting Projects 99 6.4 Converting UNIX Makefiles 100 6.5 Converting Autoconf Based Projects 101 6.6 Converting Windows Based Workspaces 103 CHAPTER 7 SYSTEM INSPECTION 105 7.1 Using Header Files and Libraries 105 7.2 System Properties 107 7.3 Built-in Find Modules 113 7.4 How to Pass Parameters to a Compilation? 115 7.5 How to Configure a Header File 116 7.6 Creating a <Package>Config.cmake File 118 CHAPTER 8 CUSTOM COMMANDS AND TARGETS 125 8.1 Portable Custom Commands 125 8.2 Using add_custom_command on a Target 127 8.3 Using add_custom_command to Generate a File 129 8.4 Adding a Custom Target 130 8.5 Specifying Dependencies and Outputs 133 8.6 When There Isn't One Rule for One Output 134 CHAPTER 9 CROSS COMPILING WITH CMAKE 137 9.1 Toolchain files 138 9.2 System inspection 142 9.3 Running executables built in the project itself 144 9.4 Cross compiling Hello world 147 9.5 Cross compiling for a microcontroller 152 9.6 Cross compiling an existing project 154 9.7 Cross compiling a complex project - VTK 157 9.8 Some tips and tricks 158 CHAPTER 10 AUTOMATION & TESTING WITH CMAKE 161 10.1 Automating and Testing with CMake and CTest 161 10.2 How does CMake Facilitate Testing? 162 10.3 Testing Using CTest 163 10.4 Additional Test Properties 166 10.5 Using CTest to Drive Complex Tests 167 10.6 Handling a Large Number of Tests 168 10.7 Producing Test Dashboards 169 10.8 Setting up Automated Dashboard Clients 178 10.9 Advanced CTest Scripting 185 10.10 Setting up a Dashboard Server 191 CHAPTER 11 PORTING CMAKE TO NEW PLATFORMS AND LANGUAGES 197 11.1 The Determine System Process 197 11.2 The Enable Language Process 198 11.3 Porting to a New Platform 200 11.4 Adding a New Language 202 11.5 Rule Variable Listing 202 11.6 Compiler and Platform Examples 204 11.7 Extending CMake 206 CHAPTER 12 TUTORIALS 211 12.1 A Basic Starting Point (Step 1) 211 12.2 Adding a Library (Step 2) 213 12.3 Installing and Testing (Step 3) 216 12.4 Adding System Introspection (Step 4) 218 12.5 Adding a Generated File and Generator (Step 5) 218 12.6 Building an Installer (Step 6) 223 12.7 Adding Support for a Dashboard (Step 7) 224 APPENDIX A - VARIABLES 225 Variables That Change Behavior 225 Variables That Describe the System 228 Variables for Languages 230 Variables that Control the Build 233 Variables that Provide Information 235 Variables In CMakeBackwardCompatibilityC.cmake 241 Variables in CMakeBackwardCompatibilityCXX.cmake 243 System Environment Variables That Affect CMake 243 APPENDIX B - CMAKE COMMAND REFERENCE 245 CMake Command-Line Options 245 CMake Generators 250 CTest Command-Line Options 251 CPack Command-Line Options 257 Listfile Commands 258 Extra CTest Listfile Commands 308 Compatibility Listfile Commands 310 APPENDIX C - CMAKE MODULES 317 Standard CMake Modules 317 APPENDIX D - PROPERTIES 367 Global Properties 367 Directory Properties 368 Target Properties 369 Test Properties 374 Sourcefile Properties 375 INDEX 381 Ken Martin PhD Kitware Inc. 28 Corporate Drive Clifton Park NY 12065 518 371 3971 _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
