CMAKE3: Cross-platform make

Versions Installed

Kay: 3.12.3, 3.15.1, 3.15.4, 3.20.1

LXP: 3.18, 3.26

Description

CMake is a family of tools designed to build, test and package software. CMake is used to control the software compilation process using simple platform and compiler independent configuration files. CMake generates native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in the compiler environment of your choice.

License

CMake is freely available under the CMAKE (BSD) License.

Benchmarks

N/A.

Usage

On Kay

To use CMake 3.12.3 load the relevant environment module:

module load cmake/3.12.3

By default CMake will use the GNU compiler suite. If you want to use the Intel compilers, and this is recommended for best performance, they can by set by issuing the following commands:

export CC=icc export CXX=icpc export FC=ifort

On Meluxina

On meluxina, you can load one of the following module to use cmake.

module load CMake/3.18.4

or

module load CMake/3.26.3-GCCcore-12.3.0

Additional Notes

Further information can be found here.