Porting a Project to CMake
In the final chapter of this book, we will combine a number of different building blocks that we have discussed in the previous chapters and apply them to a real-life project. Our goal will be to demonstrate step-by-step how to port a non-trivial project to CMake and discuss the steps involved in such a process. We will provide recommendations for porting your own projects or adding CMake support to legacy code, be it from Autotools, from hand-written configure scripts and Makefiles, or from Visual Studio project files.
To have a tangible and realistic example, we will use the source code behind the popular editor Vim (https://www.vim.org) and attempt to port the configuration and compilation from Autotools to CMake. ...
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