Download the software by using CVS. CVS is a source code revision control system used by many participants in the open-source community. There is currently no method to obtain the software as a packaged zip or tar file. Packaged releases will become available in the near future.

To use CVS, you must have it installed on your system. You may wish to use the Cygwin tools on Windows platforms, or WinCVS which provides a very nice GUI to CVS.

The source is accessed by checking out a read-only version of the CMake source code. (Only developers have write-access to the repository. Contact Kitware at kitware@kitware.com if you require write access.) Use the following commands.

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@public.kitware.com:/CMake/cvsroot login
(respond with password cmake)

Follow this command by checking out the source code:
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@public.kitware.com:/CMake/cvsroot co CMake