Use the "-S" and -B" flags instead of "mkdir -p" and "cd". The "-p" flag to "mkdir" wasn't needed as "contrib/buildsystems" is tracked, and the rest of this is now easier to copy/paste into a shell without having one's directory changed. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> --- contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt b/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt index 3957e4cf8cd..494da807c53 100644 --- a/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt +++ b/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt @@ -16,9 +16,7 @@ though, therefore the `File>Open>Folder...` option is preferred. Instructions to run CMake manually: - mkdir -p contrib/buildsystems/out - cd contrib/buildsystems/out - cmake ../ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release + cmake -S contrib/buildsystems -B contrib/buildsystems/out -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release This will build the git binaries in contrib/buildsystems/out directory (our top-level .gitignore file knows to ignore contents of @@ -36,8 +34,8 @@ NOTE: -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE is optional. For multi-config generators like Visual St this option is ignored This process generates a Makefile(Linux/*BSD/MacOS) , Visual Studio solution(Windows) by default. -Run `make` to build Git on Linux/*BSD/MacOS. -Open git.sln on Windows and build Git. +Run `make -C contrib/buildsystems` to build Git on Linux/*BSD/MacOS. +Open contrib/buildsystems/git.sln on Windows and build Git. NOTE: By default CMake uses Makefile as the build tool on Linux and Visual Studio in Windows, to use another tool say `ninja` add this to the command line when configuring. -- 2.38.0.1280.g8136eb6fab2
