Maybe you've been living under the same rock as me. I was under a similar impression untill I decided to learn cmake last week.
I was blown away by its simplicity and power.
You can download almost any C/C++ library from GitHub then add two lines to your cmake file. It will then compile and link with your project.
Blown away.
Cmake can generate project files for Visual Studio, makefiles, and countless other formats. Better yet, you can open a cmake folder directly in Visual Studio. No need to generate a project :)
This comes as no surprise to anybody, I'm sure, but cmake is great.
It was tricky to find good information about it though. It has been around forever, but the nicer features were added recently it seems.
I was blown away by its simplicity and power.
You can download almost any C/C++ library from GitHub then add two lines to your cmake file. It will then compile and link with your project.
Blown away.
Cmake can generate project files for Visual Studio, makefiles, and countless other formats. Better yet, you can open a cmake folder directly in Visual Studio. No need to generate a project :)
This comes as no surprise to anybody, I'm sure, but cmake is great.
It was tricky to find good information about it though. It has been around forever, but the nicer features were added recently it seems.