CMake Tutorial

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Building

Linux and MacOS

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
### This will create an executable "hello-world" in the build directory.
./bin/hello-world

Windows

1. Use the CMake GUI.

   1. Set the source directory to this directory.

   2. Create a new "build" directory inside this one, set it as the build directory.

   3. Click on "Configure".

      1. Select the appropriate version of MSVC, e.g. "Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64".

      2. Click "Finish".

   4. Click on "Generate".

   5. Click on "Open Project".

2. This will open a Visual Studio project with three targets -- ALL_BUILD, hello-world, ZERO_CHECK.

   1. Click through Build -> Build solution.

   2. This will create a folder (bin/*) for the current build configuration (Debug, MinSizeRel, Release, RelWithDebInfo) with a hello-world.exe file.

   3. Open a command prompt or PowerShell window in this folder, type in .\hello-world.exe to run this executable.