Rather than the multi-line "mkdir/cd/cmake" recipe provide an equivalent one-liner using the "-S" and "-B" options, and then suggest building with "make -C <build-dir>". The rest of these instructions discuss e.g. running tests from our top-level "t/" directory, so it's more helpful to avoid changing the user's current directory. The "-S" and "-B" options were added in cmake v3.13.0, which is older than the version we have a hard dependency on[1]. As an aside The "-p" flag to "mkdir" in the pre-image wasn't needed, as "contrib/buildsystems" is tracked 1. 061c2240b1b (Introduce CMake support for configuring Git, 2020-06-12) 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 8f8b6f375f7..5b22a9b217f 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/out` 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. -- 2.39.0.rc1.981.gf846af54b4b
