CMake Build Script Generator¶

lbuild module: modm:build:cmake

CMake is a widely used build tool supported by almost every IDE.

This module generates three files:

a modm/repo.cmake file: configures all required CMake tools with the right settings (also using information from the modm:build module) to compile the modm library.
a top-level CMakeLists.txt: configures CMake to build modm and your application.
a top-level Makefile: provides a convenience wrapper for calling CMake from the command line.

This module is intended to be used for integration with IDEs that natively only support CMake. It therefore only provides the bare minimum of features to compile and upload your application to your target. For additional build tools features see the modm:build:scons module.

Make Methods¶

The Makefile wrapper provides these convenience methods.

make cmake¶

Generates the CMake build folders and initializes the build system.

 $ make cmake
    ...
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: build/{project.name}/cmake-build-release
    ...
-- Build files have been written to: build/{project.name}/cmake-build-debug

You must call this once before you can build!

If you forget to call this first, the build will fail with this error message:

 $ make build-release
Error: build/cmake-build-release is not a directory
make: *** [build-release] Error 1

make build-release¶

make build-debug¶

Compiles your application into an executable using the release or debug profile.

 $ make build-release
Scanning dependencies of target blink_cmake
[  3%] Building C object CMakeFiles/blink_cmake.dir/modm/ext/cmsis/device/peripherals.c.o
[  7%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/blink_cmake.dir/modm/src/modm/architecture/driver/atomic/flag.cpp.o
[ 19%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/blink_cmake.dir/modm/src/modm/board/board.cpp.o
    ...
[ 96%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/blink_cmake.dir/main.cpp.o
[100%] Linking CXX executable blink_cmake.elf
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   1596      52   20468   22116    5664 blink_cmake.elf
[100%] Built target blink_cmake.bin
[100%] Built target blink_cmake.hex
[100%] Built target blink_cmake.lss

make upload-release¶

make upload-debug¶

Writes the executable onto your target via AvrDude or OpenOCD. This is a convenience wrapper around the programming options and methods defined in the modm:build module. (* only AVR and ARM Cortex-M targets)

 $ make upload-release
[100%] Built target blink_cmake
[100%] Built target blink_cmake.bin
[100%] Built target blink_cmake.hex
[100%] Built target blink_cmake.lss
Open On-Chip Debugger 0.10.0
    ...
Info : using stlink api v2
Info : Target voltage: 3.171034
Info : stm32f1x.cpu: hardware has 6 breakpoints, 4 watchpoints
    ...
** Programming Started **
auto erase enabled
Info : device id = 0x20036410
Info : flash size = 64kbytes
    ...
wrote 2048 bytes from file build/cmake-build-release/blink_cmake.elf in 0.187893s (10.644 KiB/s)
** Programming Finished **
** Verify Started **
verified 1652 bytes in 0.104584s (15.426 KiB/s)
** Verified OK **
shutdown command invoked

make gdb¶

make gdb-release¶

Launches GDB with the debug or release executable. This is just a convenience wrapper for the debug functionality defined in the modm:build module. (* only ARM Cortex-M targets)

OpenOCD must already be running in the background. Launch it by manually calling make openocd in another terminal.

make openocd¶

Starts OpenOCD with the modm specific configuration.

make clean¶

Removes the CMake build artifacts.

make cleanall¶

Removes the entire build folder. You must then first call make cmake before being able to build again.

Options¶

include_cmakelists¶

Generate a CMakeLists.txt

This overwrites any top-level CMakeLists.txt file!

Default: True
Inputs: [True, False]

include_makefile¶

Generate a wrapper Makefile

This overwrites any top-level Makefile file!

Default: True
Inputs: [True, False]

Collectors¶

flag_format¶

Formatting compile flags for CMake

Inputs: [Callable]