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diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt index 78245ae671..543cab57f1 100644 --- a/CMakeLists.txt +++ b/CMakeLists.txt @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ SET(CMake_VERSION_MAJOR 2) SET(CMake_VERSION_MINOR 4) SET(CMake_VERSION_PATCH 7) # for an actual release this should not be defined -SET(CMake_VERSION_RC 11) +#SET(CMake_VERSION_RC 11) SET(CMake_VERSION "${CMake_VERSION_MAJOR}.${CMake_VERSION_MINOR}") SET(CMake_VERSION_FULL "${CMake_VERSION}.${CMake_VERSION_PATCH}") diff --git a/Readme.txt b/Readme.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..315783620a --- /dev/null +++ b/Readme.txt @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +This is CMake, the cross-platform, open-source make system. +CMake is free software under a BSD-like license, see Copyright.txt. +For documentation see the Docs/ directory once you have built CMake +or visit http://www.cmake.org. + + +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 shouldn't be a major problem to port CMake to this platform. Contact the +CMake mailing list in this case: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake + + +If you don't have any previous version of CMake already installed +-------------------------------------------------------------- + +* 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 want to 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. +So basically it's the same as you may be used to from autotools-based +projects: + +$ ./bootstrap; make; make install + + +* Other Windows: + +You need to download and install a binary release of CMake in order to build +CMake. You can get these releases from +http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Download.html . Then proceed with the instructions +below. + + +You already have a version of CMake installed +--------------------------------------------- + +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 http://www.cmake.org/HTML/RunningCMake.html + + |