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Awesome CMake ★87749

A curated list of awesome CMake scripts, modules, examples and others

Your contributions are highly welcome (first see CONTRIBUTING.md).

Community
Resources
Package Management / Build Systems
Modules
Utility Scripts
Toolchains
Examples / Templates
Other

Community

Resources

Latest Documentation
FAQ
Wiki
Webinars
CGold ★114 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the CMake. [BSD2]
Modern CMake - Modern CMake PDF and samples by the creator of cmakepp ★279 ⏳1Y. [MIT]
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 - CppCon 2017: Mathieu Ropert “Modern CMake for Modular Design”.
Article - Modern C++ CI (although it uses non-modern CMake like include_directories()).
Article - It’s Time To Do CMake Right (one of the best articles about CMake).
Articles - A series on CMake - by Martin Hořeňovský
- Basic CMake usage
- Basic CMake, part 2: libraries
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

Package Management / Build Systems

hunter ★1266 - Cross-platform package manager for C++ (based on CMake ExternalProject). [BSD2]
cget ★232 - 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 ★637 ⏳1Y - C++ Package Manager based on CMake and Git. [MIT]
conan ★1904 - Conan C++ Package Manager, implemented in Python and has a CMake integration backend. [MIT]
fips ★199 - High-level build system/dependency management for distributed, multi-platform C/C++ projects. [MIT]
Ninja ★3456 - 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 ★3254 - A tool to acquire and build C++ open source libraries. Uses CMake internally as a build script language. [MIT]

Modules

cmake-modules ★479 - 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 ★157 - This is a collection of additional CMake modules. Most of them are from Ryan Pavlik. [BOOST]
CMake ★81 - Eyescale’s common CMake modules. [BSD3]
sdl2-cmake-scripts ★127 - CMake scripts for finding the SDL2, SDL2_image and SDL2_ttf libraries and headers. [BSD2]
vfxcmake ★75 - CMake Find modules for common vfx software, and general CMake utility code. [LGPL]
cmake-modules ★57 - CMake modules for some scientific libraries. [BSD2]
cgcmake ★46 - CMake modules for common applications related to computer graphics. [MIT]
FindMathematica ★27 - CMake module for Mathematica. [MIT]
extra-cmake-modules ★28 - KDE’s extra modules and scripts for CMake. [BSD3]
FindICU.cmake ★23 ⏳1Y - CMake module to find International Components for Unicode (ICU) Library. [BSD2]
FindTBB ★55 - CMake find module for Intel Threading Building Blocks. [MIT]
cmake-modules ★23 ⏳3Y - hanjianwei’s CMake module collection. [MIT]
YCM - Extra CMake Modules for Yet Another Robot Platform ★204 and friends. [BSD3]

Utility Scripts

These provide a wide range of functionality - from dealing with compiler flags to using tools. Some also contain modules.

cotire ★777 - 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 ★99 ⏳1Y - For managing compiler/linker flags, collecting sources, precompiled headers, unity builds and others. [MIT]
cmakepp ★279 ⏳1Y - Enhancement Suite for the CMake Build System. [MIT]
sugar ★78 - CMake tools and examples: collecting source files, warnings suppression, etc. [BSD2]
DownloadProject ★205 ⏳1Y - CMake module for downloading an external project’s source at configure time. [MIT]
buildem ★25 ⏳1Y - Modular CMake-based system that leverages ExternalProject to simplify builds. [LICENSE]
coveralls-cmake ★66 - Coveralls JSON coverage generator and uploader for CMake. [MIT]
compatibility ★60 ⏳1Y - Improved version of cmake-compile-features. [LICENSE]
cmake-modules ★27 ⏳2Y - LibFindMacros development repository and other cool CMake stuff. [LICENSE]
GreatCMakeCookOff ★22 - This is a repository of useful and less than useful CMake recipes. [MIT]
cppcheck-target-cmake ★14 ⏳2Y - Per-target CPPCheck for CMake. [MIT]
clang-tidy-target-cmake ★10 ⏳2Y - Add clang-tidy checks to a target using CMake. [MIT]
cmake-unit ★27 ⏳1Y - Unit testing framework for CMake. [MIT]
cmake-header-language ★2 ⏳2Y - CMake macro to determine the language of a header file. [MIT]
tooling-cmake-util ★2 ⏳2Y - Utility and common library for all polysquare CMake tools. [MIT]
iwyu-target-cmake ★3 ⏳2Y - CMake integration for include-what-you-use. [MIT]
sanitizers-cmake ★100 - CMake module to enable sanitizers for binary targets. [MIT]
cmake-precompiled-header ★85 - Visual Studio and GCC precompiled header macro. [LICENSE]
CMakePCHCompiler ★40 - CMake precompiled headers via custom compiler extension - with reuse support! [MIT]
CMake-codecov - Enables code coverage and generates coverage reports with CMake targets. [GPL]
leatherman ★31 - Collection of C++ and CMake utility libraries. [APACHE2]
cmake-get ★41 - Get dependencies in config or script mode. [NO LICENSE]

Toolchains

dockcross ★617 - Cross compiling toolchains in Docker images. [MIT]
android-cmake ★872 - CMake toolchain file and other scripts for the Android NDK. [BSD3]
ios-cmake ★207 ⏳1Y - Toolchain file and examples using CMake for iOS development. [BSD3]
qt-android-cmake ★85 ⏳1Y - For building and deploying Qt based apps on Android without QtCreator. [LICENSE]
mingw-w64-cmake ★72 - CMake-based MinGW-w64 Cross Toolchain - to build Windows binaries of mpv. [ISC]
cmake-avr ★81 - CMake toolchain for AVR. [LICENSE]
arduino-cmake ★32 - This is the CMake project settings for the Arduino platform. [MPL]
polly ★423 - Collection of CMake toolchain files and scripts for cross-platform build and CI testing. [BSD2]
toolchains ★19 - For crosscompiling with CMake. They are meant to be mainly used on ArchLinux. [NO LICENSE]
cmake - Collection of CMake toolchain files, mostly for static linking. [APACHE2]

Examples / Templates

cmake-init ★265 - Template for reliable, cross-platform C++ project setup using CMake. [LICENSE]
learning-cmake ★607 - This is a simple CMake practice project which contains some different scenarios. [GPL2]
cmake_test ★12 - Small example project using CMake. [NO LICENSE]
android-cmake - Examples of using ruslo/hunter ★1266 package manager for an Android application. [BSD2]
hunter-simple - Example of downloading/installing dependencies using ruslo/hunter ★1266 package manager. [BSD2]
weather ★18 ⏳2Y - Example of using Hunter cross-platform package manager for CMake to build application which use Boost, CppNetlib.URI, GTest, JSON Spirit. Platforms: Windows (Visual Studio), Linux, Mac OS X + iOS. [BSD2]
package-example ★154 - Config mode of find_package (examples for this Stack Overflow question). [NO LICENSE]
CMakeTemplates ★42 ⏳1Y - Set of initial CMake templates that I use for every game port I work on. [NO LICENSE]
minimal_cmake_example ★91 - Minimal CMake example, that covers dependencies and packaging. [CC0-1.0]
cmake-example ★70 - Example project which demonstrates various CMake features. [BSD3]
cmake-examples ★398 - Useful CMake examples in a tutorial format. [MIT]
cmake-templates ★178 - Some CMake Templates. Qt, Boost, OpenCV, C++11, etc. [MIT]
CppProjectTemplate ★162 ⏳2Y - Basic, but working, C++ project using CMake, boost and Doxygen. [MIT]
mini-cmake-qt ★96 ⏳1Y - Minimal CMake template for Qt 5 projects. [LICENSE]
CMake-VisualStudio-Example ★58 ⏳1Y - CMake example for Visual Studio developers - blog post. [NO LICENSE]
Cpp-Project-Template ★51 ⏳3Y - C++ bootstrap project template including CMake build system. [MIT]
BASIS ★16 ⏳1Y - CMake BASIS makes it easy to create sharable software and libraries that work together. [BSD2]
OpenGL_CMake_Skeleton ★35 ⏳2Y - A ready to use CMake skeleton using GLFW, Glew and glm. [MIT]
coveralls-cmake-example - Example project for coveralls-cmake ★66. [NO LICENSE]
cppbase ★87 - Template for a simple CMake-based C++ project. [MIT]
Arduino-CMake-Template ★3 - Starting point for Arduino development using CMake. [NO LICENSE]
c-template ★33 - Boilerplate to set up a c project, include CuTest, CMake build setup. [MIT]
cpp_project_template ★26 - Simple template to start quickly a C++ project managed by CMake. [MIT]
cpp-boilerplate ★47 - Template that aims to be a reference for modern CMake and CI. [MIT]
ci_helloworld ★142 - A simple example of how to setup a complete CI environment for C and C++. [MIT]
how-to-export-cpp-library ★7 - An OS-agnostic C++ library template sporting ctest and CI support, written in plain CMake with line-by-line guiding comments. [MIT]
ModernCppCI ★59 ⏳1Y - An example of doing a Modern C++ project with CI (although it uses non-modern CMake like include_directories()). [MIT]
modern-cmake-sample ★77 - Best practices and proper usage of CMake by using targets. [NO LICENSE]
CMakeInstallExample ★9 - Installation example for a C++ project (Windows) with Cmake. [NO LICENSE]
cpp14-project-template ★10 - A C++14 template with CI, tests, code coverage, docs and static analysis integration. [CC0-1.0]
cmake_templates ★38 - Templates for creating C++ libraries and executables (including conan). [NO LICENSE]
cmake_snippets ★16 - Short copy-pasteable CMake snippets. [BSD3]
cmake-cookbook ★30 - A huge CMake cookbook full of recipes. [MIT]

Other

autocmake ★24 - 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 ★125 - Collection of CMake macros to simplify building LaTeX files. [BSD3]
python-cmake-buildsystem ★180 - Replacement buildsystem for CPython. [APACHE2]
scikit-build ★54 - Improved build system generator for CPython C extensions. [MIT]
protobuf-cmake ★26 ⏳2Y - CMake build support for Google Protobufs. [BSD3]
node-cmake ★44 - CMake-based build system for node.js native modules. [ISC]
cmake-font-lock ★21 ⏳1Y - Advanced syntax coloring support for CMake scripts inside Emacs. [GPL]
stm32-cmake ★269 - Used to develop applications for the STM32 - ST’s ARM Cortex-M0(3,4,7) MCUs. [MIT]
autovala ★109 - Program that automatically generates CMake configuration files for your Vala project. [GPL]
catkin ★137 - CMake-based build system that is used to build all packages in Robot Operating System (ROS). [BSD3]
suitesparse-metis-for-windows ★157 - CMake scripts for painless usage of SuiteSparse+METIS. [BSD3]
cython-cmake-example ★110 ⏳1Y - Utilities and example for using CMake to build Cython modules. [LICENSE]
osg-3rdparty-cmake ★86 - CMake scripts for building OpenSceneGraph third party libraries. [MIXED LICENSE]
cmake-d ★33 - CMake for D2. [MIT]
cmakeprojectmanager2 ★44 - Enhanced CMake Project Manager plugin for Qt Creator. [NO LICENSE]
cmake-lint ★49 ⏳1Y - Check for coding style issues in CMake files. cmakelint requires Python. [APACHE2]
git-cmake-format ★26 - Integrate clang-format into your CMake project hosted in a git repository. [LICENSE]
configure-cmake ★54 ⏳1Y - configure-cmake is an autotools-style configure script for CMake-based projects. [CC0-1.0]
tbb ★68 - Threading Building Blocks with CMake build. [APACHE2]
sqlite.cmake.build ★12 ⏳1Y - CMake script for sqlite amalgamation. [NO LICENSE]
cmake-ast ★14 - Python module to reduce a CMake file to an AST. [MIT]
cmake_format ★110 - Source code formatter for CMakeLists.txt files. [GPL]
cmake-checks-cache ★8 - CMake checks cache helper modules. [MIT]

License

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