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Web Book

CGold: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the CMake. [BSD2]

Modern CMake

Modern CMake PDF and samples by the creator of cmakepp. [MIT]

Tutorial

Modern CMake tutorials part1: CMake basics

Article

Easily supporting CMake install and find_package().

Article

Easy dependency management for C++ with CMake and Git.

Article

Opt-in header-only libraries with CMake.

Article

Ultimate Guide to Modern CMake.

Article

A list of common CMake antipatterns (from 2013 but still relevant).

Article

How to Build a CMake-Based Project.

Article

Learn CMake's Scripting Language in 15 Minutes.

Article

The architecture of CMake.

Lecture

Effective CMake - by Daniel Pfeifer, C++Now 2017.

Article

Building Cross-Platform CUDA Applications with CMake.

Tutorial

A step-by-step guide for understanding CMake.

Article + Lecture

Embracing Modern CMake - by Stephen Kelly.

Lecture

Modern CMake for Modular Design - by Mathieu Ropert, CppCon 2017.

Article

It's Time To Do CMake Right (one of the best articles about CMake).

Basic CMake usage

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Basic CMake, part 2: libraries

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Lecture

Introduction to CMake - by Florent Castelli, C++ Sweden 2018.

Article

Some nice and accurate CMake tips.

Article

Modern CMake for Library Developers.

Article

Effective Modern CMake: a great summary of most good practices - by Manuel Binna.

Book

Professional CMake: A Practical Guide (paid).

Book

Effective CMake: Practical Advice to Write Better CMake (not fully written yet).

Web Book

An Introduction to Modern CMake.

YouTube Series

How to CMake Good. [CC0-1.0]

Lecture

More Modern CMake (slides & examples)- by Deniz Bahadir, Meeting C++ 2018.

Lecture

Oh No! More Modern CMake (slides)- by Deniz Bahadir, Meeting C++ 2019.

Article

Modifying the default CMake build types/flags, toolchains and patches - Oh my! - by Cristian Adam.

Tutorial

Tutorial and Example on How to Properly Use Modern CMake.

hunter

Cross-platform package manager for C++ (based on CMake ExternalProject). [BSD2]

cget

CMake package retrieval. This can be used to download and install CMake packages. [BOOST]

cppan

C++ Archive Network - C++ Package Manager based on CMake, implemented in C++14. [APACHE2]

cpm

C++ Package Manager based on CMake and Git. [MIT]

conan

Conan C++ Package Manager, implemented in Python and has a CMake integration backend. [MIT]

fips

High-level build system/dependency management for distributed, multi-platform C/C++ projects. [MIT]

Ninja

Build system that differs from others in two major respects: it is designed to have its input files generated by a higher-level build system (like CMake), and it is designed to run builds as fast as possible. [APACHE2]

vcpkg

A tool to acquire and build C++ open source libraries. Uses CMake internally as a build script language. [MIT]

pmm

PMM is a module for CMake that manages... package managers. [MIT]

cpm

A setup-free CMake + git dependency manager. [MIT]

FetchDependency

Configuration-time retrieval, configuration and building of dependencies. [MIT]

cmake-modules

Ryan Pavlik's collection of CMake modules. There are a number of find modules, especially for virtual reality and physical simulation, some utility modules, and some patches or workarounds for CMake itself. [BOOST]

cmake-modules

This is a collection of additional CMake modules. Most of them are from Ryan Pavlik. [BOOST]

CMake

Eyescale's common CMake modules. [BSD3]

cmake-modules

CMake modules for some scientific libraries. [BSD2]

cgcmake

CMake modules for common applications related to computer graphics. [MIT]

FindMathematica

CMake module for Mathematica. [MIT]

extra-cmake-modules

KDE's extra modules and scripts for CMake. [BSD3]

FindICU.cmake

CMake module to find International Components for Unicode (ICU) Library. [BSD2]

FindTBB

CMake find module for Intel Threading Building Blocks. [MIT]

FindWiX

CMake module for building Windows Installer packages with WiX toolset. [BSD3]

FindIDL

CMake module for building IDL files with MIDL and generating CLR DLL using Tlbimp. [MIT]

cmake-modules

hanjianwei's CMake module collection. [MIT]

YCM

Extra CMake Modules for Yet Another Robot Platform and friends. [BSD3]

CMakeCM

CMake Community Modules. [NO LICENSE]

Metabench

CMake module for compile-time microbenchmarks. [BOOST]

Oranges

Ben Vining's library of CMake modules and toolchains [GPL]

better.cmake

Collection of modern CMake extensions [[APACHE2]][APACHE-2.0]

cotire

Cotire (compile time reducer) is a CMake module that speeds up the build process of CMake based build systems by fully automating techniques as precompiled headers and unity builds for C and C++. [MIT]

ucm

For managing compiler/linker flags, collecting sources, precompiled headers, unity builds and others. [MIT]

cmakepp

Enhancement Suite for the CMake Build System. [MIT]

sugar

CMake tools and examples: collecting source files, warnings suppression, etc. [BSD2]

DownloadProject

CMake module for downloading an external project's source at configure time. [MIT]

buildem

Modular CMake-based system that leverages ExternalProject to simplify builds. [LICENSE]

coveralls-cmake

Coveralls JSON coverage generator and uploader for CMake. [MIT]

compatibility

Improved version of cmake-compile-features. [LICENSE]

cmake-modules

LibFindMacros development repository and other cool CMake stuff. [LICENSE]

GreatCMakeCookOff

This is a repository of useful and less than useful CMake recipes. [MIT]

cppcheck-target-cmake

Per-target CPPCheck for CMake. [MIT]

clang-tidy-target-cmake

Add clang-tidy checks to a target using CMake. [MIT]

cmake-unit

Unit testing framework for CMake. [MIT]

cmake-header-language

CMake macro to determine the language of a header file. [MIT]

tooling-cmake-util

Utility and common library for all polysquare CMake tools. [MIT]

iwyu-target-cmake

CMake integration for include-what-you-use. [MIT]

sanitizers-cmake

CMake module to enable sanitizers for binary targets. [MIT]

cmake-precompiled-header

Visual Studio and GCC precompiled header macro. [LICENSE]

CMakePCHCompiler

CMake precompiled headers via custom compiler extension - with reuse support! [MIT]

CMake-codecov

Enables code coverage and generates coverage reports with CMake targets. [GPL]

cmake-get

Get dependencies in config or script mode. [NO LICENSE]

ixm

Make CMake less painful when trying to write Modern Flexible CMake. [MIT]

CMakeCooking

Flexible development environments for CMake projects with external dependencies . [APACHE2]

fetch_paths.cmake

Lightweight utility to simplify file/directory path retrieval in CMake, supporting dynamic searches and flexible output formats. [MIT]

dockcross

Cross compiling toolchains in Docker images. [MIT]

android-cmake

CMake toolchain file and other scripts for the Android NDK. [BSD3]

ios-cmake

Toolchain file and examples using CMake for iOS development. [BSD3]

qt-android-cmake

For building and deploying Qt based apps on Android without QtCreator. [LICENSE]

mingw-w64-cmake

CMake-based MinGW-w64 Cross Toolchain - to build Windows binaries of mpv. [ISC]

cmake-avr

CMake toolchain for AVR. [LICENSE]

arduino-cmake

This is the CMake project settings for the Arduino platform. [MPL]

polly

Collection of CMake toolchain files and scripts for cross-platform build and CI testing. [BSD2]

toolchains

For cross-compiling with CMake. They are meant to be mainly used on ArchLinux. [NO LICENSE]

cmake

Collection of CMake toolchain files, mostly for static linking. [APACHE2]

Arduino-CMake-Toolchain

CMake toolchain for all official and 3rd party Arduino platforms. [MIT]

cmake-init

Template for reliable, cross-platform C++ project setup using CMake. [LICENSE]

android-cmake

Examples of using ruslo/hunter package manager for an Android application. [BSD2]

hunter-simple

Example of downloading/installing dependencies using ruslo/hunter package manager. [BSD2]

package-example

Config mode of find_package (examples for this Stack Overflow question). [NO LICENSE]

minimal_cmake_example

Minimal CMake example, that covers dependencies and packaging. [CC0-1.0]

cmake-example

Example project which demonstrates various CMake features. [BSD3]

cmake-examples

Useful CMake examples in a tutorial format. [MIT]

mini-cmake-qt

Minimal CMake template for Qt 5 projects. [LICENSE]

BASIS

CMake BASIS makes it easy to create sharable software and libraries that work together. [BSD2]

cpp-boilerplate

Template that aims to be a reference for modern CMake and CI. [MIT]

how-to-export-cpp-library

An OS-agnostic template project for exporting either shared, static or header-only C++ library, sporting ctest and CI support, written in plain CMake with line-by-line tutorial comments. [MIT]

modern-cmake-sample

Best practices and proper usage of CMake by using targets. [NO LICENSE]

CMakeInstallExample

Installation example for a C++ project (Windows) with Cmake. [NO LICENSE]

cpp14-project-template

A C++14 template with CI, tests, code coverage, docs and static analysis integration. [CC0-1.0]

cmake_templates

Templates for creating C++ libraries and executables (including conan). [NO LICENSE]

cmake_snippets

Short copy-pasteable CMake snippets. [BSD3]

cmake-cookbook

A huge CMake cookbook full of recipes. [MIT]

cpp-template

A template C++ repository, using CMake and Catch. [NO LICENSE]

pitchfork

A set of conventions for native C and C++ projects. [MIT]

cmake-examples

A collection of as simple as possible, modern CMake projects. [MIT]

cpp-project

Boiler plate for C++ projects - tests, CI, coverage, docs. [UNLICENSE]

ModernCppStarter

A template for modern C++ projects using CMake, CI, code coverage, clang-format, reproducible dependency management, tests using doctest and much more. [UNLICENSE]

SeeMake

A feature-packed, ready-to-use CMake template with testing, static and dynamic checks, coverage reports, and more. [MIT]

autocmake

Using a autocmake.yml file Autocmake composes CMake building blocks into a CMake project and generates CMakeLists.txt as well as a setup script, which serves as a front-end to CMakeLists.txt. [BSD3]

UseLATEX

Collection of CMake macros to simplify building LaTeX files. [BSD3]

scikit-build

Improved build system generator for CPython C extensions. [MIT]

node-cmake

CMake-based build system for node.js native modules. [ISC]

cmake-font-lock

Advanced syntax coloring support for CMake scripts inside Emacs. [GPL]

autovala

Program that automatically generates CMake configuration files for your Vala project. [GPL]

catkin

CMake-based build system that is used to build all packages in Robot Operating System (ROS). [BSD3]

suitesparse-metis-for-windows

CMake scripts for painless usage of SuiteSparse+METIS. [BSD3]

osg-3rdparty-cmake

CMake scripts for building OpenSceneGraph third party libraries. [MIXED LICENSE]

cmake-d

CMake for D2. [MIT]

cmakeprojectmanager2

Enhanced CMake Project Manager plugin for Qt Creator. [NO LICENSE]

cmake-lint

Check for coding style issues in CMake files. cmakelint requires Python. [APACHE2]

git-cmake-format

Integrate clang-format into your CMake project hosted in a git repository. [LICENSE]

cmakefmt

Fast, native CMake formatter written in Rust with format-on-save editor support and a first-party GitHub Action. [MIT]

configure-cmake

configure-cmake is an autotools-style configure script for CMake-based projects. [CC0-1.0]

cmake-ast

Python module to reduce a CMake file to an AST. [MIT]

cmake-checks-cache

CMake checks cache helper modules. [MIT]

cmake_check

Static analysis (linter) for the CMake language (e.g. to enforce modern CMake rules). [MIT]

cmake-language-server

CMake Language Server Protocol Implementation. [MIT]

cmake-xray

Analyze and diagnose CMake-based C++ builds from compile databases and CMake File API data. [MIT]

cmake-maven-plugin

CMake integration for Maven builds. [APACHE2]

version-from-git

Bake git information into your binary. [MIT]

SoCMake

CMake based build system for hardware (ASIC, FPGA) and System-on-Chip build automation. [LGPL]