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Building libraries and executables from sources can be a complex task. Several
solutions exist to this problem: GNU Makefiles is the traditional approach.
Today, CMake is one of the trendier alternatives. Autocmake is a script which
composes well tested CMake building blocks into a CMake project. Autocmake
assembles CMake modules, generates ``CMakeLists.txt`` as well as ``setup.py``,
which serves as a front-end to ``CMakeLists.txt``. All this is done based on a
lightweight ``autocmake.cfg`` file::
composes well tested CMake building blocks into a CMake project and generates
``CMakeLists.txt`` as well as ``setup.py``, which serves as a front-end to
``CMakeLists.txt``. All this is done based on a lightweight ``autocmake.cfg``
file::
python update.py --self
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- Math libraries: BLAS, LAPACK
Our other motivation for Autocmake was to make it easier for developers who do
not know CMake to generate a CMake infrastructure within minutes by providing
a higher-level entry point to CMake.
not know CMake to use CMake by providing a higher-level entry point to CMake.
Autocmake is a chance to provide a well documented and tested set of CMake
plug-ins. With this we wish to give also users of codes the opportunity to
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Our guideline is to follow good established conventions in order to allow users
and developers to recognize the configuration when experimenting with
an Autocmake-powered project.
another.
and developers to recognize the configuration when experimenting with an
Autocmake-powered project.