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Ever wonder what the difference is between CMake and GNU Make? Answers online tend to focus on how CMake is a meta-build system, has a mouse clicky GUI interface available,...

I've been working on The CMake Tutorial for the last few months. It's designed to help get people up to speed with modern CMake, quickly.

I had a look at the most common questions about CMake that people ask Google. Some of them had rather poor answers.

My previous CMake tutorial taught the basics: how to compile multiple source files into one program.

I've noticed C++ beginners asking how to compile code beyond the usual minimal examples. It seems that many tutorials are so busy explaining basics such as variables, if/else flow-control, &...

I used to avoid CMake like the plague, and hated how everyone else seemed to use it for their C++ projects (it's the de-facto standard for C++).