Developer’s Guide

The build System

Running CMake

You should almost always make a separate build tree outside of the main tree. For example, if you have directory ‘project’ with ‘project/src’ etc., you should make a directory outside of project called ‘project\_build’. You should change to the new directory and run CMake there.
mkdir project\_build cd project\_build cmake ../project

Making projects

Making an Xcode project

Change to your build directory and run:
cmake -G Xcode ../project

Your new Xcode project should be in ‘project\_build/project.xcodeproj’

Making an Eclipse CDT project

Change to your build directory and run:
cmake -G “Eclipse CDT4 - Unix Makefiles” -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ../project

Your new Eclipse CDT project is stored in ‘project\_build/.project’. In Eclipse, go to Import -> General -> Existng Projects into Workspace -> Select root directory and choose the ‘project\_build’ directory.