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NiLuJe · 07-14-2012, 07:04 PM

It means just that, outside of the source distribution (the folder where you extracted the sources, or where your checkout from the SCM lives).

Meaning you can build and clutter with object files a folder that's miles away from the source, which is something appealing to a good number of people (especially when you work with a live source tree, or if said source tree is not hosted on a local device). Hence the need to supply the path the the toplevel source directory to cmake

. (That ability is one of the selling points of cmake, among other things).

But, it's (usually) completely optional, you can still build inside the source directory, like the Mint instructions do.

(Alternatively, there was a common trend at one point to just create a directory in the toplevel source directory, and do stuff from there, that ended up being easier to document with something like this: tar xvzf my-project-1.0.0.tar.gz && cd my-project-1.0.0 && mkdir build && cd build && cmake .. && make)

07-14-2012, 07:04 PM	#2
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	It means just that, outside of the source distribution (the folder where you extracted the sources, or where your checkout from the SCM lives). Meaning you can build and clutter with object files a folder that's miles away from the source, which is something appealing to a good number of people (especially when you work with a live source tree, or if said source tree is not hosted on a local device). Hence the need to supply the path the the toplevel source directory to cmake . (That ability is one of the selling points of cmake, among other things). But, it's (usually) completely optional, you can still build inside the source directory, like the Mint instructions do. (Alternatively, there was a common trend at one point to just create a directory in the toplevel source directory, and do stuff from there, that ended up being easier to document with something like this: tar xvzf my-project-1.0.0.tar.gz && cd my-project-1.0.0 && mkdir build && cd build && cmake .. && make) Last edited by NiLuJe; 07-14-2012 at 07:09 PM.