Alexander Neundorf

In this talk Bill Hoffman, the original CMake developer and Alex Neundorf the author of the KDE CMake build system will give a tutorial on the latest features and best practices for using the CMake build tool. CMake has been in development for over 12 years now, and has continually improved over time. There have been many improvements that make complex tasks easier to implement. Alex and Bill will cover the important features and discuss the most efficient ways to use them.

This talk will be relevant to both those who have used CMake for years, and for new developers wanting to understand how best to construct a cross platform build system.

Other people: Bill Hoffman

Bill Hoffman, the original CMake developer, and Alexander Neundorf the architect of the KDE CMake Build system will talk about the full capabilities of CMake as a build tool. They will cover both the basics of getting started with CMake, and some really cool features that allow for the cross platform building of entire packages of software. This will be demonstrated with example projects using the gtk as well as the Qt toolkit. They will also give some interesting historical notes on CMake. Covered topics will include: * The basics * Debugging your CMake build system * Integrating 3rd party packages in the build using ExternalProject * Creating source and binary packages using CPack * Continuous Integration testing with CDash/CTest and cdash@home * Installing your CMake-based library - exporting and importing targets * Cross-platform scripting with CMake (cmake -E, cmake -P, file(DOWNLOAD ...) ) * Lots of fun historical notes on the development of CMake and the KDE CMake build system

Other people: Bill Hoffman