The Perl Toolchain Summit needs more sponsors. If your company depends on Perl, please support this very important event.

NAME

Alien::cmake3 - Find or download or build cmake 3 or better

VERSION

version 0.05

SYNOPSIS

From Perl:

 use Alien::cmake3;
 use Env qw( @PATH );
 
 unshift @PATH, Alien::cmake3->bin_dir;
 system 'cmake', ...;

From alienfile

 use alienfile;
 
 share {
   # Build::CMake plugin pulls in Alien::cmake3 automatically
   plugin 'Build::CMake';
   build [
     # this is the default build step, if you do not specify one.
     [ '%{cmake}', -G => '%{cmake_generator}', '-DCMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE:BOOL=true', '-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=%{.install.prefix}', '.' ],
     '%{make}',
     '%{make} install',
   ];
 };

DESCRIPTION

This Alien distribution provides an external dependency on the build tool cmake version 3.0.0 or better. cmake is a popular alternative to autoconf.

METHODS

bin_dir

 my @dirs = Alien::cmake3->bin_dir;

List of directories that need to be added to the PATH in order for cmake to work.

exe

 my $exe = Alien::cmake3->exe;

The name of the cmake executable.

HELPERS

cmake3

 %{cmake3}

The name of the <cmake> executable.

SEE ALSO

Alien::Build::Plugin::Build::CMake

Alien::Build plugin for cmake This will automatically pull in Alien::cmake3 if you need it.

Alien::CMake

This is an older distribution that provides an alienized cmake. It is different in these ways:

Alien::cmake3 is based on alienfile and Alien::Build

It integrates better with Aliens that are based on that technology.

Alien::cmake3 will provide version 3.0.0 or better

Alien::CMake will provide 2.x.x on some platforms where more recent binaries are not available.

Alien::cmake3 will install on platforms where there is no system cmake and no binary cmake provided by cmake.org

It does this by building cmake from source.

Alien::cmake3 is preferred

In the opinion of the maintainer of both Alien::cmake3 and Alien::CMake for these reasons.

AUTHOR

Author: Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

Contributors:

Adriano Ferreira (FERREIRA)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2017 by Graham Ollis.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.