Building on Unix with CMake

The following instructions are dedicated to users of Unix-like systems (Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, *BSD, etc.)

This article describes how to use ​CMake build system to build and install GEOS from sources.

GEOS has got equipped with build configuration for CMake shortly after GEOS 3.2.0 release (ticket #317), thus it is considered as work in progress, experimental. Hopefully, it will get into next release of GEOS 3.3.0 version.

* IMPORANT: Testers of CMake configuration wanted! Please, try to build GEOS with CMake and report any problems by submitting a ticket *

Requirements

• ​CMake 2.6 or later
• Decent C++ compiler and C++ Standard Library, ​GNU GCC 4.x recommended
• GEOS source code. Currently, only source code in SVN trunk​ is configured for CMake

Configuring

Important, it is highly recommended to configure build out of source code tree.

$ svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/geos/trunk trunk
$ mkdir build
$ ls
build trunk
$ cd build
$ cmake ../trunk

There is collection of ​CMake variables available to set by user to control various aspects of compilation and installation. For instance CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX variable which by default is set to /usr/local directory.

Building

$ make