General CMake documentation links

Useful CMake documentation.

• The dated but still extremely useful LJ article/tutorial

• The man page which is automatically build by the cmake --help facility (should be available with your distribution and also as the last part of http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Documentation.html).

• To get the same documentation in perhaps more convenient form from cmake itself, run

cmake --help-full |less

• To get a complete list of cmake commands use

cmake --help-command-list |less

• To get specific help for, e.g., the ADD_SUBDIRECTORY command use

cmake --help-command ADD_SUBDIRECTORY

• The CMake Documentation page

• The CMake Wiki

• The CMake FAQ

• Useful CMake variables

• How to find installed software

• How to do platform checks

• Useful introduction to CMake from the KDE perspective

• CMake is an easy language to understand so the cmake modules in $cmake_prefix/share/CMake/Modules, where cmake_prefix is the prefix for your cmake install, are a good source of ideas.

• KDE and Scribus CMakeLists.txt files and *.cmake modules. You may get access to the latest KDE and Scribus work following the instructions at http://developer.kde.org/source/anonsvn.html and http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=install1.

• The CMake mailing list This is an extremely active mailing list where the subscribers are most helpful.