I am proud to announce the second CMake 3.8 release candidate.
https://cmake.org/download/
Documentation is available at:
https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.8
Release notes appear below and are also published at
https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.8/release/3.8.html
Some of the more significant changes in CMake 3.8 are:
* CMake now supports "CSharp" (C#) as a first-class language. It is
currently supported by the Visual Studio Generators for VS 2010
and above.
* CMake now supports "CUDA" as a first-class language. It is
currently supported by the Makefile Generators and the
"Ninja" generator on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Support for the
Visual Studio IDE is under development but not included in this
release.
* The "Compile Features" functionality now offers meta-features that
request compiler modes for specific language standard levels (e.g.
"cxx_std_11"). See "CMAKE_C_KNOWN_FEATURES" and
"CMAKE_CXX_KNOWN_FEATURES".
* The "Compile Features" functionality is now aware of C++ 17. No
specific features are yet enumerated besides the "cxx_std_17" meta-
feature.
* The Visual Studio Generators for VS 2013 and above learned to
support a "host=x64" option in the "CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET" value
(e.g. via the "cmake(1)" "-T" option) to request use of a VS 64-bit
toolchain on 64-bit hosts.
* The Visual Studio Generators learned to treat files passed to
"target_link_libraries()" whose names end in ".targets" as MSBuild
"targets" files to be imported into generated project files.
* The "try_compile()" command source file signature gained new
options to specify the language standard to use in the generated
test project.
* The "try_compile()" command source file signature now honors
language standard variables like "CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD". See policy
"CMP0067".
* A "BUILD_RPATH" target property and corresponding
"CMAKE_BUILD_RPATH" variable were added to support custom "RPATH"
locations to be added to binaries in the build tree.
* The "COMPILE_FLAGS" source file property learned to support
"generator expressions".
* A new generator expression "$" was
added. It resolves to the true-value if the condition is "1" and
resolves to the false-value if the condition is "0".
* The "Compile Features" functionality is now aware of features
supported by Intel C++ compilers versions 12.1 through 17.0 on UNIX
and Windows platforms.
* The Visual Studio Generators for VS 2010 and above now place per-
source file flags after target-wide flags when they are classified
as raw flags with no project file setting ("AdditionalOptions").
This behavior is more consistent with the ordering of flags produced
by other generators, and allows flags on more-specific properties
(per-source) to override those on more general ones (per-target).
* The precompiled Windows binary MSI package provided on "cmake.org"
now records the installation directory in the Windows Registry under
the key "HKLM\Software\Kitware\CMake" with a value named
"InstallDir".
CMake 3.8 Release Notes
***
Changes made since CMake 3.7 include the following.
New Features
Languages
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C#
~~
* CMake learned to support "CSharp" (C#) as a first-class language
that can be enabled via the "project()" and "enable_language()"
commands. It is currently supported by the Visual Studio Generators
for VS 2010 and above.
C# assemblies and programs can be added just like common C++ targets
using the "add_library()" and "add_executable()" commands.
References between C# targets in the same source tree may be
specified by "target_link_libraries()" like for C++. References to
system or 3rd-party assemblies may be specified by the target
properties "VS_DOTNET_REFERENCE_" and
"VS_DOTNET_REFERENCES".
* More fine tuning of C# targets may be done using target and source
file properties. Specifically the target properties related to
Visual Studio ("VS_*") are worth a look (for setting toolset
versions, root namespaces, assembly icons, ...).
CUDA
* CMake learned to support "CUDA" as a first-class language that can
be enabled via the "project()" and "enable_language()" commands.
* "CUDA" is currently supported by the Makefile Generators and the
"Ninja" generator on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Support for the
Visual Studio IDE is under development but not included in this
release.
* The NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit compiler ("nvcc") is supported.
C & C++
~~~
* The "Compile Features" functionality now offers meta-features that
request compiler modes for specific language standard levels (e.g.
"cxx_std_11"). See "CMAKE_C_KNOWN_FEATURES" and
"CMAKE_CXX_KNOWN_FEATURES".
* The "Compile Features" functionality is now aware of C++ 17. No
specific features are yet enumerated besides the "cxx_std_17" meta-
feature.
* The "Compile Features" functionality is now aware of the
availability of C99 in gcc since version 3.4.
Platfo
