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Top 23 CMake CMake Projects
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Project mention: My Battle with CI/CD - CMake, Windows, and Cross-Platform Pain | dev.to | 2025-11-14
- name: Setup vcpkg and install libgit2 (Windows) if: runner.os == 'Windows' run: | git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git cd vcpkg .\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat .\vcpkg install libgit2:x64-windows # This is redundant!
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ModernCppStarter
🚀 Kick-start your C++! A template for modern C++ projects using CMake, CI, code coverage, clang-format, reproducible dependency management and much more.
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CPM.cmake
📦 CMake's missing package manager. A small CMake script for setup-free, cross-platform, reproducible dependency management.
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Meet cmake-init — an awesome open-source project that can completely tale care of creating your C/C++ projects with a professional structure, ready-made CMake setup, testing, and more.
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ios-cmake
A CMake toolchain file for iOS/iPadOS, visionOS, macOS, watchOS & tvOS C/C++/Obj-C++ development
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cmake-scripts
Easy-to-add enhancements for any C/C++ CMake project. Including AFL fuzzing, code-coverage, Thread/Address/Leak/Address/Undefined sanitizer instrumentation, compilation of GLSL shaders and more.
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cpp-project
Boiler plate template for C++ projects, with CMake, Doctest, Travis CI, Appveyor, Github Actions and coverage reports.
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project_options
A general-purpose CMake library that provides functions that improve the CMake experience following the best practices.
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moderncpp-project-template
A Modern C++ cross-platform Project Template with CMake, conan (optional), cppcheck (optional) and clang-format (optional)
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cmake-git-version-tracking
Embed Git metadata in a C/C++ compatible static library using CMake (e.g. commit ID, author, date, and message).
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GLFW-CMake-starter
Use CMake to create a project with GLFW - Multi-platform Windows, Linux and MacOS.
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asap
A modern cmake starter project for C++ with a complete build lifecycle, testing, dependency management, etc. Portable across Linux, OS X and Windows. (by abdes)
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CppCMakeVcpkgTemplate
A template project to build a C++/CMake/vcpkg based projects with IDE and GitHub Actions. Build is sped up with caching of artifacts.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source CMake projects in CMake? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vcpkg | 27,516 |
| 2 | cmake-examples | 13,076 |
| 3 | ModernCppStarter | 5,408 |
| 4 | CPM.cmake | 4,139 |
| 5 | cmake-init | 2,551 |
| 6 | ios-cmake | 2,184 |
| 7 | corrosion | 1,503 |
| 8 | cmake-init | 941 |
| 9 | cmake-raytracer | 930 |
| 10 | cmake-scripts | 670 |
| 11 | cmake-sfml-project | 629 |
| 12 | cpp-project | 626 |
| 13 | python-cmake-buildsystem | 470 |
| 14 | project_options | 376 |
| 15 | gersemi | 360 |
| 16 | moderncpp-project-template | 333 |
| 17 | cmake-git-version-tracking | 249 |
| 18 | GLFW-CMake-starter | 177 |
| 19 | embed | 175 |
| 20 | asap | 158 |
| 21 | CppCMakeVcpkgTemplate | 157 |
| 22 | Observe | 140 |
| 23 | cmake_templates | 131 |
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