We are using CMake already for years in my company to develop cross-platform software. CMake is really a great piece of software, but the user experience in Visual Studio was not great. It worked, but we often needed to explain how, and the typical Visual Studio user didn’t know …

CMake is a great tool when building cross-plattform software. It offers also install target so you can build and install software this way:

# create of-of-source build directory
mkdir bld
cd bld
# run CMake to generate a Makefile
ccmake ..
# Build in 4 cores
make -j 4
# Install into CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX (default is …

An updated version of my mk script is now available on github. This way it is easier to update it. See https://github.com/gergap/mk

I blogged about it before in 2014, see http://gergap.de/mk-script-to-simplify-out-of-source-builds.html