Compiling using CMake

According to the Wikipedia page, CMake is a unified, cross-platform, open-source build system that enables developers to build, test and package software by specifying build parameters in simple, portable text files. It works in a compiler-independent manner and the build process works in conjunction with native build environments, such as make, Apple's Xcode and Microsoft Visual Studio. It also has minimal dependencies, C++ only. CMake is open source software and is developed by Kitware.

CMake can:

Create libraries
Generate wrappers
Compile source code
Build executables in arbitrary combinations

Since the CMake build files are not in Odamex's source tree yet, you can grab a patch file that can be applied against the base directory of an SVN checkout link here. The correct patch is by Alexander Mayfield, the one by Albert Brown has not been updated since 2007.

Windows

The latest version of CMake can be downloaded from Kitware's website here.

Linux

Compiling Odamex using CMake has been tested on Debian Linux 6.0. The instructions for the other distributions have been inferred using available documentation. If you are having trouble with a specific configuration, please add a response to this bug.

Installing CMake

Depending on your Linux distribution, you may or may not have a copy of CMake in your software repository. Even if you do, the version that is available might not be up-to-date. The following distributions have a version of CMake 2.8, which is what the current build script requires.

Debian 6.0: CMake 2.8.2 aptitude install cmake
Fedora 15: CMake 2.8.4 yum install cmake
openSUSE 11.4: CMake 2.8.3 zypper in cmake
Slackware 13.37 CMake 2.8.4 pkgtool
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: CMake 2.8.0 apt-get install cmake
Ubuntu 11.04: CMake 2.8.3 apt-get install cmake

The following distributions have an out-of-date version of CMake. You are welcome to bypass the version check and see if it still works. Assuming that there isn't too much breakage and workarounds needed to support it, "official" support for CMake 2.6 will be considered.

CentOS 5.x: CMake 2.6.4 (through EPEL) yum install cmake
Debian 5.0: CMake 2.6.0 aptitude install cmake
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x: CMake 2.6.4 (through EPEL) yum install cmake
Scientific Linux 5.x: CMake 2.6.4 (through EPEL) yum install cmake

If you do not have an up-to-date CMake, or would prefer to use the absolute latest version, both binary and source tarballs can be downloaded here.