source: general/prog/cmake.xml@ 08f422e

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY cmake-download-http "http://www.cmake.org/files/v&cmake-major-version;/cmake-&cmake-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY cmake-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY cmake-md5sum        "701386a1b5ec95f8d1075ecf96383e02">
  <!ENTITY cmake-size          "6.5 MB">
  <!ENTITY cmake-buildsize     "346 MB (648 MB with tests and cmake-gui)">
  <!ENTITY cmake-time          "4.2 SBU (12.1 SBU with tests and cmake-gui)">
]>

<sect1 id="cmake" xreflabel="CMake-&cmake-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="cmake.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>CMake-&cmake-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="cmake">
    <primary sortas="a-CMake">CMake</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to CMake</title>

    <para>
      The <application>CMake</application> package contains a modern
      toolset used for generating Makefiles. It is a successor of the
      auto-generated <command>configure</command> script and aims to
      be platform- and compiler-independent. A significant user of
      <application>CMake</application> is <application>KDE</application>
      since version 4.
    </para>

    &lfs79_checked;&gcc6_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&cmake-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&cmake-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &cmake-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &cmake-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &cmake-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &cmake-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">CMake Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="curl"/> and
      <xref linkend="libarchive"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="qt5"/> (for the Qt-based GUI),
      <xref linkend="subversion"/> (for testing), and
      <ulink url="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Sphinx">Sphinx</ulink>
      (for building documents)
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
      <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/cmake"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of CMake</title>
<!--
    <para>
       If <application>Qt4</application> and <application>Qt5</application> are
       installed in <filename class="directory">/opt</filename>, use
       <command>source setqt4</command> or <command>source setqt5</command> to
       choose which one will be used to build the Qt-based GUI.
    </para>
-->
    <para>
      Install <application>CMake</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>./bootstrap --prefix=/usr       \
            --system-libs       \
            --mandir=/share/man \
            --no-system-jsoncpp \
            --docdir=/share/doc/cmake-&cmake-version; &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To test the results, issue: <command>bin/ctest
      -j<replaceable>&lt;N&gt;</replaceable> -O
      cmake-&cmake-version;-test.log</command>, where
      <replaceable>&lt;N&gt;</replaceable> is an integer between 1 and the
      number of system cores. For some systems, it may be necessary to run the
      tests only for Qt4 using <command>source setq4</command>
      before the
      <command>./bootstrap ...</command>) command.  
      One of the problematic
      tests relates to the test procedures finding the correct Qt files. One
      of 444 tests is known to fail under some circumstances related to Gtk+2
      and c++ standards.

     <!-- Please, don't remove this comment, needed if tests start to fail
      again. If you want to investigate a problem with a given "problem1-test",
      use <command>bin/ctest -R "problem1-test"</command> and, to omit it, use
      <command>bin/ctest -E "problem1-test"</command>. These options can be
      used together: <command>bin/ctest -R "problem1-test" -E
      "problem2-test"</command>.  Option -N can be used to display all
      available tests, and you can run <command>bin/ctest</command> for a
      sub-set of tests by using separated by spaces names or numbers as
      options. Option -/-help can be used to show all options.-->
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <parameter>--system-libs</parameter>: This switch forces the build system
      to link against <application>Zlib</application>,
      <application>Bzip2</application>, <application>cURL</application>,
      <application>Expat</application> and <application>libarchive</application>
      installed on the system.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>--no-system-jsoncpp</parameter>: This switch removes the
      <application>JSON-C++</application> library from the list of system
      libraries. A bundled version of that library is used instead.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--qt-gui</option>: This switch enables building of the
      <application>Qt</application>-based  GUI for
      <application>CMake</application>.
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          ccmake, cmake, cmake-gui (optional), cpack and ctest
        </seg>
        <seg>
          None
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/share/cmake-&cmake-major-version; and
          /usr/share/doc/cmake-&cmake-version;
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>


    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="ccmake">
        <term><command>ccmake</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a curses based interactive frontend to
            <command>cmake</command>.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="cmake ccmake">
            <primary sortas="b-ccmake">ccmake</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="cmake-prog">
        <term><command>cmake</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the makefile generator.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="cmake cmake-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-cmake">cmake</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="cmake-gui">
        <term><command>cmake-gui</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            (optional) is the <application>Qt</application>-based frontent to
            <command>cmake</command>.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="cmake cmake-gui">
            <primary sortas="b-cmake-gui">cmake-gui</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="cpack">
        <term><command>cpack</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the <application>CMake</application> packaging program.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="cmake cpack">
            <primary sortas="b-cpack">cpack</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="ctest">
        <term><command>ctest</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a testing utility for cmake-generated build trees.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="cmake ctest">
            <primary sortas="b-ctest">ctest</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>