Introduction

CMake allows user to prepare the IDE for developing solving all tedious problems about linking and importing. Also, many users offer their projects open-source so any other user could configure and compile them successfully . However, due to the many options that CMake allow for configuration, there is no a standard way to link different projects from different repositories, and developers are forced to learn CMake in most of cases.

The normal way of work with a CMake-based project consist on Configure and Generate your project.

Configure

• Open CMake in your computer

• Write the Source code directory on the first line
  • This folder MUST contain a CMakeList.txt file
• Write the Binary code directory where you want to generate your project for compilation on the second line
• Click on Configure button
  • Sometimes, CMake ask you to create a new folder for Binary, this happens if you did not create it first

• Select the IDE/Platform that you will use for compilation, for example VS2013

• Change or modify the options into CMake panel as you like or as tutorial for installation tells you to do it if you are generating an open-source project from other user

• Click Configure button again

Generate

• When you finish without errors the CMake Configure step, click on Generate to create your IDE files

• Open your IDE and start working!