CMake on saoe: The Nifty Oddity

Building SDL 3

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:18:07 +0200

The Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) recently released its new major version 3 (as version 3.2.0) and that was a good oppurtunity to check it out and play a bit with it. But before I could do that, I had to build the library first.

Building wxWidgets

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:18:07 +0200

A short guide on how to build wxWidgets (the cross-platform GUI toolkit) from source (the recommended way), on Windows, by using CMake and Visual Studio.

How to use CMake

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Fri, 30 May 2025 17:45:28 +0200

This is just a reminder for some syntax/parameter details on how to invoke CMake (i.e. the actual cmake program), mainly from the CLI, to configure/generate/build a project – it’s not a tutorial on how to write a CMakeLists.txt file!

Building Qt 6 on Windows with Visual Studio

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Sun, 09 May 2021 19:24:52 +0200

Time for another short guidance on how to build your own copy of the Qt framework from source.

Prepare a CMake project for find_package()

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Although I’ve already published an article on how to bring an external CMake project into your own CMake project, I recently realized that I haven’t written about how one can prepare a CMake project for the use with find_package() — despite the fact that I’ve used it already for quite a while in RandFill for my own WPDLib(rary); so let me make up leeway for that oversight with this post.

How to use CMake to setup Visual Studio for using the Clang compiler

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 17:23:07 +0100

This is a brief post on how to use CMake to setup a Visual Studio 2019 solution on Windows that will use the LLVM Clang compiler instead of the orginal Visual C++ one.

Using CMake with External Projects

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Sat, 03 Aug 2019 12:40:23 +0200

The reason for this post is that I spent a considerable amount of time¹ the last two days to convince CMake’s External Project feature to do what I wanted. And without the help of the usual suspects (Stackoverflow, old mails, blog articles, code snippets, etc.), I might still not be done. So I thought I could pay back the general public by posting some notes on this topic 😉

Building Qt for static linking

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 02:38:17 +0000

One of the drawbacks of using such a comprehensive framework as Qt is the massively increased size of you program. When my pet project RandFill was only using the plain Win32-API, it was a single executable file of a couple of hundred kilobytes.

Now, using dynamically linked Qt, the whole package (with DLLs, MSVC redistributables, etc.) is bigger than 20 megabytes as a 64-bit build!

Journal #3

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 20:40:05 +0000

Konnichiwa, time for another status report.

CMake, Visual Studio and Qt 5 with MOC...

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 14:22:12 +0000

After building a 64-bit version of Qt with/for Microsoft Visual Studio, building a simple Qt test program and doing first steps with the CMake build system, the next hurdle appeared on the horizon in the form of support for Qt and its Q_OBJECT features (I am currently fighting more with the changes I made to my build environment than improving the actual program code…).

Generating 64-bit projects for Visual Studio with CMake

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Sat, 31 May 2014 15:18:42 +0000

Describes a few tips on how to generate a 64-bit project for Visual Studio with CMake.

On CMake

info@saoe.net (Sascha Offe) — Sun, 04 May 2014 13:31:36 +0000

I’ve changed the build process of the RandFill project recently from using the Visual Studio files (*.sln, *.vcxproj, etc.) to maintaining and generating those with CMake.