Brad King b56a9ae7f1 Merge topic 'target_compile_features'
9eaf3755 Export: Populate INTERFACE_COMPILE_FEATURES property.
8ed59fc2 Add target_compile_features command.
4e6ca504 cmTargetPropCommandBase: Change the interface to return bool.
5412dede cmTarget: Transitively evaluate compiler features.
baff4434 cmTarget: Allow populating COMPILE_FEATURES using generator expressions.
f97bf437 Features: Add cxx_auto_type.
03355d6b cmTarget: Add COMPILE_FEATURES target property.
faeddf64 project: Add infrastructure for recording CXX compiler features
913394af cmTarget: Add CXX_STANDARD and CXX_EXTENSION target properties.
8238a6cd Add some COMPILE_OPTIONS for specifying C++ dialect.
892243fc Tests: Require CMake 3.0 for the SystemInformation test.
59b5fdd3 Don't load Clang-CXX from AppleClang-CXX.
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CMake
*****

Introduction
============

CMake is a cross-platform, open-source build system generator.
For full documentation visit the `CMake Home Page`_ and the
`CMake Documentation Page`_.

.. _`CMake Home Page`: http://www.cmake.org
.. _`CMake Documentation Page`: http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/documentation.html

CMake is maintained by `Kitware, Inc.`_ and developed in
collaboration with a productive community of contributors.

.. _`Kitware, Inc.`: http://www.kitware.com

License
=======

CMake is distributed under the OSI-approved BSD 3-clause License.
See `Copyright.txt`_ for details.

.. _`Copyright.txt`: Copyright.txt

Building CMake
==============

Supported Platforms
-------------------

MS Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, BeOS, QNX

Other UNIX-like operating systems may work too out of the box, if not
it should not be a major problem to port CMake to this platform.
Subscribe and post to the `CMake Users List`_ to ask if others have
had experience with the platform.

.. _`CMake Users List`: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake

Building CMake from Scratch
---------------------------

UNIX/Mac OSX/MinGW/MSYS/Cygwin
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You need to have a compiler and a make installed.
Run the ``bootstrap`` script you find the in the source directory of CMake.
You can use the ``--help`` option to see the supported options.
You may use the ``--prefix=<install_prefix>`` option to specify a custom
installation directory for CMake. You can run the ``bootstrap`` script from
within the CMake source directory or any other build directory of your
choice. Once this has finished successfully, run ``make`` and
``make install``.  In summary::

 $ ./bootstrap && make && make install

Windows
^^^^^^^

You need to download and install a binary release of CMake in order to build
CMake.  You can get these releases from the `CMake Download Page`_ .  Then
proceed with the instructions below.

.. _`CMake Download Page`: http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html

Building CMake with CMake
-------------------------

You can build CMake as any other project with a CMake-based build system:
run the installed CMake on the sources of this CMake with your preferred
options and generators. Then build it and install it.
For instructions how to do this, see documentation on `Running CMake`_.

.. _`Running CMake`: http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/runningcmake.html

Contributing
============

See `CONTRIBUTING.rst`_ for instructions to contribute.

.. _`CONTRIBUTING.rst`: CONTRIBUTING.rst
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