Topic: "\;Automati
ng Software Build Process using CMake"\;
Speaker: Armin Sobhani\, S
HARCNET
Webinar link: SN-Seminars Vidyo room
CMake is a cross -platform\, free and open-source build system that allows you automaticall y build\, test\, verify\, package and deploy software in a compiler-indepe ndent manner. CMake was originally created in 1999 for the Insight Toolkit (ITK) funded by the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) as part of the Visible Human Project and over the past 17 years has become the most popul ar build tool for C/C++ especially in the field of scientific research (e. g. medical computing\, visualization\, computer vision and HPC). Some nota ble applications that use CMake for their build process are: Qt\, MySQL\, Gromacs\, Blender\, OpenCV\, VTK and ParaView.
CMake is designed to be used in conjunction with native build environments such as Unix Makefil es\, Microsoft Visual Studio and Apple’s Xcode. The build process is con trolled by creating one or more configuration files (called CMakeLists.txt files) in each source directory (including subdirectories) that make up a project. Each CMakeLists.txt consists of one or more commands. One of the key features of CMake is the ability to build a directory tree outside th e source tree\, hence\, in case the build directory is removed\, the sourc e files remain unaffected. CMake can generate makefiles for many platforms and IDEs including Unix\, Windows\, Mac OS X\, OS/2\, MSVC\, Unix Makefil es\, Ninja\, Cygwin\, MinGW\, NMake\, Xcode\, CodeBlocks\, CodeLite\, Ecli pse CDT and even Sublime Text.
This talk will introduce CMake and go over the basics of using CMake on both user computers and SHARCNET system s to configure and build software. Basic steps of developing a working CMa keLists.txt for a sample software project will also be covered. Some progr amming experience is helpful but not mandatory.
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