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Major features

[Removed the following on the theory that it made it too much like advertising:]

Configuration files are CMake scripts, which use a programming language specialized to software builds, said by its designers to be simple and compact.
Automatic dependency analysis built-in for C, C++, Fortran and Java,
Support of SWIG, Qt, FLTK via the CMake scripting language,
Built-in support for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and past Visual Studio versions, including generation of .dsp, .dsw, .sln and .vcproj files,
Detection of file content changes using traditional timestamps,
Support for parallel builds,
Cross-compilation,
Global view of all dependencies, using CMake to output a graphviz diagram,
Designed from the ground up for cross-platform builds, and known to work on Linux, other POSIX systems (including AIX, *BSD systems, HP-UX, IRIX/SGI, MinGW/MSYS and Solaris), Mac OS X and Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP,
Integrated with Dart, CTest and CPack, a collection of tools for software testing and release.

Mark Foskey 19:40, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think some of those are important bits of information, and I added some of them in with references. Vadmium (talk) 04:08, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Notability issues regarding Andy Cedilnik and Ken Martin.

Both of these people have Wiki links pointing to no article. Unless someone is prepared to create articles for them - and not just about their work on CMake - then the links will be removed. Sslaxx (talk) 15:45, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicates

Blender is also listed as using SCons! Is it possible it uses the two? I find it hard to belive... 189.87.149.23 (talk)NeoStrider —Preceding undated comment added 00:12, 3 December 2009 (UTC).[reply]

Yes, it is possible, you just have to write both SConstruct and CMakeLists.txt, then you can use either CMake or SCons to build. Spidermario (talk) 13:59, 29 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Book propaganda

Is the specific book link really interesting on the page? Think just the open documentation references are valid in this case. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Guaxinim (talk • contribs) 16:15, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've moved it to being a reference, which I believe is reasonable. I'm not a cmake pro though so if there are better references which should replace it then go ahead... --mcld (talk) 21:36, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Who use it

Are you sure, that Conky a SuperTux use cmake? In their last archives is used autotools.--Dundee5 (talk) 14:56, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

SuperTux does have a CMakeLists.txt, at least in its SubVersion repository. However, I didn't find any for Conky. Spidermario (talk) 11:05, 16 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Conky (software) apparently does. I added a reference to README.cmake in the source code. Vadmium (talk) 04:08, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

permissions from copyright holder

The text marked as possible copyright infringement for the CMake entry on Wikipedia.org is available for use in the discussion of CMake as a software application and solution. As a company we have made this text available for use as part of our corporate messaging. The permissions can be found here: http://cmake.org/cmake/project/press_kit.html

Please contact me if further clarification is needed, Niki Russell (niki.russell@kitware.com) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.194.253.20 (talk) 17:41, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It has been over a week since the last communication of the Wikimedia Foundation's OTRS team to the company about this matter (Ticket:2010102710011944, which is viewable only to individuals who have been cleared to read such content by the WMF), and the requested licensing release has not been supplied. Accordingly, we have had no choice but to delete the material. It can be restored if proper licensing is verified in accordance with that communication. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:55, 6 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Seven years later, could somebody please remove the huge historic OTRS blurb on the top of this page? My WP:BOLD resources are somewhat limited without logging in. –89.15.236.224 (talk) 21:12, 7 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

comparison with GNU make?

Seeing as GNU make and autotools are the main "competitor", shouldn't this page at least try to compare them a bit? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.177.13.200 (talk) 13:36, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Confusing make(1) with GNU autotools. The latter is the competitor. 2001:470:600D:DEAD:0:0:0:42 (talk) 00:02, 1 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

They are linked from the article. More would be undue weight, IMHO. -- DevSolar (talk) 11:29, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Notable applications

The § Notable applications that use CMake section lists 70+ applications, most without references. Do we really want to keep adding stuff to that section until Wikipedia runs out of space and explodes? It looks more like a 'Oh, I know another app that uses it that's not yet listed' list. Make (software) doesn't feel the need to list everything... --82.136.210.153 (talk) 20:29, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think this whole article is just an advertisement. Really, why does an encyclopedia need to list features of every software package? Just leave cmake in the build generation tools article and delete this ad. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2620:0:E50:7016:99C0:7176:CC20:28EF (talk) 15:58, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. The section doesn't serve any encyclopaedic purpose, I have removed it. Liam McM 16:12, 22 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposal to merge from CPack

CPack is almost a stub. I'm not sure if it meets the notability criteria as a standalone article, with only one reference. Should it be merged to this subject article? 2001:2003:54FA:2751:0:0:0:1 (talk) 03:56, 5 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It's no stub, it's a deletion candidate with multiple issues, actually more issues than lines.

IOW, yes, go for it. –89.15.236.224 (talk) 21:05, 7 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Certainly merge a bit of it; a mention might be worth it. But it doesn't need its own page. peterl (talk) 10:32, 22 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Code & keywords highlighting

@Mwtoews: I know about {{code}} but I want few commands to be highlighted in language-wise way. Why not? AXONOV (talk) ⚑ 11:02, 3 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Alexander Davronov: FYI, inline {{code}} can take a |lang=cmake parameter to achieve what you want. However, I found that add_executable(...) is more consistent and readable than add_executable(...), so I picked the former. So why colourise these two inline words? I would normally choose to inline syntax highlight longer code segments to help distinguish between (e.g.) operators, variables, etc., but this consideration doesn't really apply to the two words. +mt 21:55, 3 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]