General_CMake_documentation_links

Useful CMake documentation.

• The dated but still extremely useful LJ article/tutorial

• The official CMake documentation site.

• The man page which should be available with your distribution and also on line.

• To get complete documentation 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 Wiki

• The CMake FAQ

• Useful CMake variables

• How to find libraries

• How to do platform checks

• Useful Introduction and tutorial for CMake from the KDE perspective

• CMake is an easy language to understand so the cmake modules in $cmake_prefix/share/CMake-2.8/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://download.kde.org/ and http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Download.

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

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