Help improve the quality of CMake by running a nightly dashboard build on your machine. If you would like to contribute to the CMake project by building a nightly dashboard build, you can follow these instructions:
  • Install CMake 2.4.6 or greater
  • Checkout CMake from cvs:
    cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@www.cmake.org:/cvsroot/CMake login (password is cmake)
    cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@www.cmake.org:/cvsroot/CMake co CMake
  • Configure your CMake source tree with binary cmake
  • Test your setup by typing make Experimental, then check the CMake dashboard in the next hour to see if your results are available.
    • Once you are able to submit experimental builds, the next step is setting up a nightly build. The nightly build works in almost the same way, but needs to be run each night by crontab or some other scheduling program.
  • Create a ctest -S script for your machine

Example ctest -S script

 
SET (CTEST_SOURCE_DIRECTORY "C:/Hoffman/My Builds/CMake")
SET (CTEST_BINARY_DIRECTORY "C:/Hoffman/My Builds/CMakeVSNMake71")

SET (CTEST_CVS_COMMAND "C:/cygwin/bin/cvs.exe")
SET (CTEST_CVS_CHECKOUT  "${CTEST_CVS_COMMAND} -d :pserver:hoffman@www.cmake.org:/cvsroot/CMake co -d 
     \"${CTEST_SOURCE_DIRECTORY}\" CMake")

# which ctest command to use for running the dashboard
SET (CTEST_COMMAND 
  "C:/Program Files/CMake/bin/ctest.exe -D Nightly"
  )

# what cmake command to use for configuring this dashboard
SET (CTEST_CMAKE_COMMAND 
  "C:/Program Files/CMake/bin/cmake.exe"
  )


####################################################################
# The values in this section are optional you can either
# have them or leave them commented out
####################################################################

# should ctest wipe the binary tree before running
SET (CTEST_START_WITH_EMPTY_BINARY_DIRECTORY TRUE)

# this is the initial cache to use for the binary tree, be careful to escape
# any quotes inside of this string if you use it
SET (CTEST_INITIAL_CACHE "
MAKECOMMAND:STRING=nmake -i
CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM:FILEPATH=nmake
CMAKE_GENERATOR:INTERNAL=NMake Makefiles
BUILDNAME:STRING=Win32-nmake71
SITE:STRING=VOGON.kitware
CVSCOMMAND:FILEPATH=C:/cygwin/bin/cvs.exe
")

# set any extra envionment varibles here
SET (CTEST_ENVIRONMENT
)
Once you have a ctest -S script, try running it with ctest. 
/full/path/to/ctest -S /full/path/to/script.cmake
Once that is working, then add that command as a crontab entry on unix, or to the windows scheduler program on windows.