CMake

CMake is cross-platform free and open-source software for build automation, testing, packaging and installation of software by using a compiler-independent method.

Any program can be compiled with g++ in theory; however, when programs get bigger, a project will have more folders and files. CMake automates this process by compiling all files together by running a long command for you.

• Used it before but learned about it properly in Visual SLAM book

CMake basically automatically creates a Makefile. So we just need to:

• Write CMakeLists.txt
• Call cmake .. in /build
• Call make to create executables using g++