CMake 3.29.0

CMake is an extensible, open-source system that manages the build process in an operating system and in a compiler-independent manner. Unlike many cross-platform systems, CMake is designed to be used in conjunction with the native build environment. Simple configuration files placed in each source directory (called CMakeLists.txt files) are used to generate standard build files (e.g., makefiles on Unix and projects/workspaces in Windows MSVC) which are used in the usual way. CMake can generate a native build environment that will compile source code, create libraries, generate wrappers and build executables in arbitrary combinations.

Tags software-development build-tool
License BSDL
State stable

Recent Releases

3.29.023 Mar 2024 10:05 minor feature: CMake 3.29 Release Notes Changes made since CMake 3.28 include the following. New Features. Command-Line. cmake(1)" "-E cat" can now print the standard input by passing the. argument. Generators. Visual Studio Generators now support selecting between the Intel oneAPI Fortran compiler ("ifx") and the Intel classic Fortran compiler ("ifort") using a "fortran=" field in. CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET". File-Based API. The "cmake-file-api(7)" "codemodel" version 2 "version" field has been updated to 2.7. The "cmake-file-api(7)" "codemodel" version 2 "target" object gained a new "launchers" field. Compilers. The LLVM/Clang GNU-like frontend on Windows ("clang++") may now be used to compile "CUDA" language sources. Compilers targeting the GNU ABI on Windows (MinGW) may now be used to compile Objective C ("OBJC") and Objective C++ ("OBJCXX"). These include GNU compilers ("gcc" and "g++") and the LLVM/Clang GNU-like frontends ("clang" and "clang++"). TI Clang-based compilers are now supported with compiler id. TIClang". Commands. The add_custom_command(TARGET) signature now supports adding build events through Alias Targets. The "cmake_language(EXIT)" sub-command was added to terminate "cmake. P" scripts with a specified exit code. The "export(SETUP)" sub-command was added to configure export sets. Its "TARGET" option's "XCFRAMEWORK_LOCATION" setting specifies the location of a ".xcframework" that can be substituted for an installed target. The "if()" command gained new tests "IS_READABLE", "IS_WRITABLE" and. IS_EXECUTABLE" to check file or directory permissions. Variables. The "CMAKE_INSTALL_PRE" environment variable was added to provide a default value for the "CMAKE_INSTALL_PRE" variable. The "CMAKE_LINKER_TYPE" variable and corresponding "LINKER_TYPE" target property were added to specify what linker to use with some toolchains. The "CMAKE_ lt;LANG gt;_COMPILER_LINKER". CMAKE_ lt;LANG gt;_COMPILER_LINKER_ID". CMAKE_ lt;LANG gt;_COMPILER_LINKER_VERSION" and. CMAKE_ lt;LANG gt;
3.28.308 Feb 2024 02:05 minor feature: Brad King (5): zlib: Fix 1.2.13 version and date notice Tests: Add case covering PCH in a unity build cmGlobalGenerator: Add unity/pch sources after computing compile features Unity: Clarify source comments on unity build transformation CMake 3.28.3 zlib upstream (1): zlib 2022-10-12 (04f42cec)
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3.21.428 Oct 2021 06:45 minor feature: Changes in 3.21.4 since 3.21.3: Ben Boeckel (2): Tests/RunCMake/Autogen: test CMP0111 behavior. cmQtAutoGenInitializer: support IMPLIB-only imported targets. Brad King (11): Tests: RunCMake.XcodeProject XcodeIOSInstallCombined cases for Xcode 13.0. gitlab-ci: update macOS jobs to use Xcode 13.0. bootstrap: Enable cmake_language command to support cmake-gui with Qt 6.2. ci: Enable CTest.Update CVS,SVN,HG tests. MSVC: Tolerate cxx_std_23 feature on older compiler versions. zstd: Backport for SIGBUS on armv6 from zstd 1.5.0. IRSL: discovery of VS 2022 v143 toolset redistributables for preview 5. Source: typo in _WIN32 preprocessor checks. BinUtils: Avoid llvm-strip versions older than Clang 11. VS: Update Visual Studio 17 2022 generator for the Release Candidates. CMake 3.21.4. Erlend E. Aasland (1): CPack/IFW: Add support for QtIFW 4.1. Gregor Jasny (1): Tests: Specify destination for Xcode scheme. Michael Hirsch (1): FindMatlab: Add R2021b = gt; 9.11 version. Robert Maynard (1): NVHPC: only use '-MD' for the C and CXX languages. Seth R Johnson (1): FortranCInterface: regression in timestamp check. Sylvain Joubert (1): TestDriver: old-style-cast warning in C++ mode. Timo Röhling (1): GNUInstallDirs: misinterpretation of Debian Policy on LIBEXECDIR.
3.21.321 Sep 2021 21:05 minor feature: Changes in 3.21.3 since 3.21.2: Brad King (10): FindBoost: Add support for Boost 1.77. MSVC: MSVC_TOOLSET_VERSION for VS 2022 v143 toolset. IRSL: Add discovery of VS 2022 v143 toolset redistributables. gitlab-ci: Update Windows builds to MSVC 19.29-16.11 toolset. VS: managed C++ project generation for VS 2022. VS: Update Visual Studio 17 2022 generator for Preview 4. HIP: Detect ROCm path earlier. HIP: Remove ROMClang compiler id and use Clang directly. HIP: Simplify detection of HIP runtime CMake package. CMake 3.21.3. Haibo Huang (1): Android: Restore searching PATH for executables. Jean-Marc Hengen (1): IAR: Restore support for projects not enabling policy CMP0057. Marc Chevrier (1): FindPython: Ensure homebrew on Mac M1 is used. Martin Kojtal (1): Ninja: ARMClang paths for Windows. Zack Galbreath (1): HIP: Use 'rocm_agent_enumerator' to determine CMAKE_HIP_ARCHITECTURES. ulatekh (1): KWSys: SystemTools: Ensure Windows Vista APIs are available before using them.
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3.20.522 Jun 2021 19:25 minor feature: Changes in 3.20.5 since 3.20.4: Brad King (7): gitlab-ci: update macOS jobs to use Xcode 12.5. cmGlobalVisualStudio10Generator: Move static functions to anonymous namespace. cmGlobalVisualStudio10Generator: Adopt GetVSInstanceVersion method. VS: Do not apply '/external:W*' flag table mapping on VS lt; 16.10. Tests: xcode version detection for Xcode 13 on ARM. Help: Add 3.20 release note section for 3.20. 3,4,5 . CMake 3.20.5. Craig Scott (1): ExternalProject: Use ref 0 to avoid MSYS/Cygwin shell substitutions. Kyle Edwards (1): CMake: Allow override of unexpected non-flow-control commands.
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3.20.328 May 2021 16:05 minor feature: Changes in 3.20.3 since 3.20.2: Brad King (7): Help: Use relative path for IDE Integration guide link to preset schema. BinUtils: Use more-private temporary variable names. ObjectiveC: Respect OSX_ARCHITECTURES for OBJC. FindBoost: Add support for Boost 1.76. Ninja: Restore support for Fortran in a symlinked build tree. Utilities/Sphinx: Update man page config for Sphinx 4. CMake 3.20.3. Craig Scott (2): ExternalProject: Ensure git fetch if updating to hash we don't have yet. ExternalProject: Only add git config setting with git 1.7.7 or later. Kyle Edwards (2): Ninja Multi-Config: Split long command lines by config. CMP0082: Check EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL property at generate time. Raul Tambre (3): GNU: C++17 default version. GNU: Final C++20 flags. GNU: C++23 support. Robert Maynard (6): CUDA: improve regex for CUDA Toolkit root from nvcc verbose output. cmCommandLineArgument: Correctly record parsing failures. cmake: `--build` and `--install` error out when encountering bad flags. cmCommandLineArgument: Provide more information syntax error messages. NVHPC: Support explicit language flags. NVHPC: Support Ninja dependency scanning.
3.20.230 Apr 2021 21:25 minor bugfix: ci: pay attention to the machine load when running tests ci: limit builds by machine load Help: Add 3.20 release note for error on unknown arguments gitlab-ci: equally delay all jobs on integration branches Autogen: Restore mocs_compilation in OBJECT libraries Help: Fix typos in cmake-compile-features(7) Help: Do not recommend WCDH in cmake-compile-features(7) Intel: Update Classic compiler version detection for 2021 IntelLLVM: Add special case for ifx 2021.1 version extraction CMake 3.20.2 Help: Behavior of file(TO_NATIVE_PATH) depends on the host platform Help: Document special cases for if(IS_ABSOLUTE) Add missing 'not' in error messages KWIML 2021-04-21 (49d91529) autogen: fix race in depfile parsing Ninja Multi-Config: Correctly generate POST_BUILD custom targets BinUtils: Restore toolchain prefix detection from compiler name 'c++' OpenBSD: Fix system feature definitions
3.7.013 Nov 2016 02:06 major feature: CMake now supports Cross Compiling for Android with simple toolchain files. The Ninja generator learned to conditionally support Fortran when using a ninja tool that has the necessary features. See generator documentation for details. The if() command gained new boolean comparison operations LESS_EQUAL , GREATER_EQUAL , STRLESS_EQUAL , STRGREATER_EQUAL , VERSION_LESS_EQUAL , and VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL . The try_compile() command source file signature now honors configuration-specific flags (e.g. CMAKE__FLAGS_DEBUG ) in the generated test project. Previously only the default such flags for the current toolchain were used. See policy CMP0066 . Toolchain files may now set CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS_INIT , CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS_INIT , and CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS_INIT variables to initialize the CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS , CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS , and CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS cache entries the first time a language is enabled in a build tree. CTest now supports test fixtures through the new FIXTURES_SETUP , FIXTURES_CLEANUP and FIXTURES_REQUIRED test properties. When using regular expressions or rerun-failed to limit the tests to be run, a fixture s setup and cleanup tests will automatically be added to the execution set if any test requires that fixture. We no longer provide Linux i386 binaries for download from cmake.org for new versions of CMake. Vim support files cmake-indent.vim , cmake-syntax.vim , and cmake-help.vim have been removed in favor of the files now provided from the vim-cmake-syntax project. Support for building CMake itself with some compilers was dropped: Visual Studio 7.1 and 2005 superseded by VS 2008 and above MinGW.org mingw32 superseded by MSYS2 mingw32 and mingw64 CMake still supports generating build systems for other projects using these compilers.
3.1.207 Feb 2015 16:25 minor bugfix: Fix regression in default configuration selection. Fix packaging of source tarballs with symbolic links. KWSys Directory: Check opendir return value before using it. Help: Clarify status of link_libraries command. Normalize OBJECT_DEPENDS paths to match custom commands. MSVC: Fix initialization of RelWithDebInfo shared library link flags. Fix detection of OpenSSL 1.0.2. Update GNU make error message matching.
3.1.018 Dec 2014 15:15 major feature: A new cmake-compile-features(7) manual was added. The Visual Studio 14 2015 generator was added. Generators for Visual Studio 11 (2012) and above learned to generate projects for Windows Phone and Windows Store. The cmake-language(7) syntax for Variable References and Escape Sequences was simplified in order to allow a much faster implementation. The if() command no longer automatically dereferences variables named in quoted or bracket arguments. The cmake-gui(1) learned to capture output from child processes started by the execute_process() command and display it in the output window. The cmake-language(7) internal implementation of generator expression and list expansion parsers have been optimized and shows non-trivial speedup on large projects. The Makefile generators learned to use response files with GNU tools on Windows to pass library directories and names to the linker. When generating linker command-lines, CMake now avoids repeating items corresponding to SHARED library targets. Many more additions and changes.
3.0.106 Aug 2014 12:26 minor bugfix: Several bugfixes were applied. Semicolon in AIX compiler warning FAIL_REFEX caused it to match other output. Linking into a static library was broken for Xcode 6. CMake build error on QNX. Fix CMakeExpandImportedTargets to avoid Error on non-existent target in get_target_property. cannot build targets 'test' or 'package' after bootstrapping (Brad King). UseSWIG.cmake used wrong filenames for Python. Fortran modules for GNU fortran were not correctly identified.
3.0.009 Jul 2014 23:59 major feature: The CMake language has been extended with *Bracket Argument* and *Bracket Comment* syntax inspired by Lua long bracket. While the CMake documentation has been converted to reStructuredText.