Bootstrapping a new project

Bootstrapping Autocmake

Download the update.py and execute it with --self to fetch other infrastructure files which will be needed to build the project:

$ mkdir cmake  # does not have to be called "cmake" - take the name you prefer
$ cd cmake
$ wget https://github.com/dev-cafe/autocmake/raw/master/update.py
$ virtualenv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
$ pip install pyyaml
$ python update.py --self

On the MS Windows system, you can use the PowerShell wget-replacement:

$ Invoke-WebRequest https://github.com/dev-cafe/autocmake/raw/master/update.py -OutFile update.py

This creates (or updates) the following files (an existing autocmake.yml is not overwritten by the script):

cmake/
    autocmake.yml      # edit this file
    update.py          # no need to edit
    autocmake/         # no need to edit
        ...            # no need to edit

Note that update.py and files under autocmake/ are overwritten (use version control).

Generating the CMake infrastructure

Now customize autocmake.yml to your needs (see Configuring autocmake.yml) and then run the update.py script which creates CMakeLists.txt and a setup script in the target path:

$ python update.py ..

The script also downloads external CMake modules specified in autocmake.yml to a directory called downloaded/:

cmake/
    autocmake.yml      # edit this file
    update.py          # no need to edit
    autocmake/         # no need to edit
        ...            # no need to edit
    downloaded/        # contains CMake modules fetched from the web

Building the project

Now you have CMakeLists.txt and setup script in the project root and the project can be built:

$ cd ..
$ python setup [-h]
$ cd build
$ make