CMake is a hell of a software, period.

• meson

  110 5,246 9.8 Python

  The Meson Build System

  

I see you don't know the freedom CMake gives you. Ever wanted to use custom compile/link logic? In CMake you can inject that with CMAKE_USER_MAKE_RULES_OVERRIDE and custom rules. In Meson you are basically screwed, everything is hardcoded. Until https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/commit/b19530bd7dc99e0b5d71acd5cdf85af915b9ddcc you couldn't even pass it full paths to the compiler

• Protobuf

  171 63,498 10.0 C++

  Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format

  

Protobuf provides a function to do most of that for you: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/main/cmake/protobuf-config.cmake.in

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• Limes

  2 21 10.0 C++

  Discontinued C++ utilities and building blocks

I'm not sure what you mean about resources? If you're talking about embedded binary assets like images, you absolutely can build those into a static library. It's true that CMake does not provide this capability natively, you need an external tool to generate C++ source files that embed this data, like this little program I wrote: https://github.com/benthevining/Limes/tree/main/programs/binary_builder

• Oranges

  1 7 10.0 CMake

  Discontinued CMake modules, scripts, and utilities

Code signing - again, CMake doesn't support this out of the box, but it's not hard to write a reusable CMake module that does this for you. Here's one for Apple codesign and here's one for PACE wraptool.

• clang-build

  1 9 0.0 Python

  Clang-based cross platform build system written in Python

  

There actually is. https://github.com/Trick-17/clang-build

• bpt

  3 293 0.0 C++

  A C++ tool for a new decade

If you would like an alternative approach, there exists a tool called bpt. It’s a new build tool and I find it a bit more intuitive then Cmake (and makefiles all together). It’s is still a beta tool FYI.

• codelite

  20 2,052 9.7 C++

  A multi purpose IDE specialized in C/C++/Rust/Python/PHP and Node.js. Written in C++

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