CMake is an extensible, open-source system that has many powerful features.

• Supports complex, large build environments. CMake has been proven in several large projects (KDE, ParaView, SecondLife)
• Generates native build files (e.g., makefiles on Unix; workspaces/projects on MS Visual C++). Therefore, standard tools can be used on any platform/compiler configuration.
• Powerful system introspection abilities including the ability to find installed include files, libraries and executables. Also the ability to test the compiler for supported features.
• Integrated testing system called CTest.
• Integrated packaging system called CPack.
• Easy integration with CDash and Dart dashboard servers.
• Powerful scripting language with simple syntax.
• Supports in-place and out-of-place builds. Multiple compilation trees are possible from a single source tree.
• Can be easily extended to add new features.
• CMake is open source, under a liberal BSD license.
• CMake operates with a cache designed to be interfaced with a graphical editor. The cache provides optional interaction to conditionally control the build process.
• Ability to create Mac OSX Frameworks and Application Bundles.
• Supports adding complex custom rules to the build.

Latest Release (2.6.0)

• The 2.6.0 release was packaged with CPack which is included as part of the 2.6.0 release.
• The .sh files are self extracting gziped tar files. To install a .sh file, run it with /bin/sh and follow the directions.
• The OS-machine.tar.gz files are gziped tar files of the install tree.
• The OS-machine.tar.Z files are compressed tar files of the install tree.
• The tar file distributions can be untared in any directory. They are prefixed by the version of CMake. For example, the SunOS-sparc tar file is all under the directory cmake-2.6.0-SunOS-sparc. This prefix can be removed as long as the share, bin, man and doc directories are moved relative to each other.
• To build the source distributions, unpack them with zip or tar and follow the instructions in Readme.txt at the top of the source tree Source distributions.

Other types of download

Many generous sponsors and contributors have supported this work.

	National Library of Medicine (NLM) - Dr. Terry Yoo at NLM/NIH is sponsoring the bulk of this work as part of the Insight segmentation and registration toolkit (ITK). CMake was originally created for the multi-platform support necessary for ITK.
	Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit - ITK is the original sponsoring project for CMake. ITK is being funded by NLM to develop cutting-edge algorithms and techniques to support the Visible Human Project.
	ASCI VIEWS Project - Jim Ahrens at the Advanced Computing Laboratory at Los Alamos National Lab is technical project leader. He has supported the deployment of CMake for building parallel processing applications.
	Sandia National Laboratories - Ken Moreland is the project lead for ParaView at Sandia. The ParaView project continues to support many parts of CMake development.
	NA-MIC Project - National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NAMIC) is funded by the National Institutes of Health through the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, Grant U54 EB005149. Information on the National Centers for Biomedical Computing can be obtained from the NIH Roadmap for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.

CMake is distributed under BSD License

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