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@@ -47,6 +47,23 @@ had experience with the platform. .. _`CMake Discourse Forum`: https://discourse.cmake.org +Building CMake with CMake +------------------------- + +You can build CMake as any other project with a CMake-based build system: +run the installed CMake on the sources of this CMake with your preferred +options and generators. Then build it and install it. +For instructions how to do this, see documentation on `Running CMake`_. + +.. _`Running CMake`: https://cmake.org/runningcmake + +To build the documentation, install `Sphinx`_ and configure CMake with +``-DSPHINX_HTML=ON`` and/or ``-DSPHINX_MAN=ON`` to enable the "html" or +"man" builder. Add ``-DSPHINX_EXECUTABLE=/path/to/sphinx-build`` if the +tool is not found automatically. + +.. _`Sphinx`: https://sphinx-doc.org + Building CMake from Scratch --------------------------- @@ -79,7 +96,7 @@ There are two ways for building CMake under Windows: 1. Compile with MSVC from VS 2015 or later. You need to download and install a binary release of CMake. You can get these releases from the `CMake Download Page`_. Then proceed with the - instructions below for `Building CMake with CMake`_. + instructions above for `Building CMake with CMake`_. 2. Bootstrap with MinGW under MSYS2. Download and install `MSYS2`_. Then install the required build tools:: @@ -91,23 +108,6 @@ There are two ways for building CMake under Windows: .. _`CMake Download Page`: https://cmake.org/download .. _`MSYS2`: https://www.msys2.org/ -Building CMake with CMake -------------------------- - -You can build CMake as any other project with a CMake-based build system: -run the installed CMake on the sources of this CMake with your preferred -options and generators. Then build it and install it. -For instructions how to do this, see documentation on `Running CMake`_. - -.. _`Running CMake`: https://cmake.org/runningcmake - -To build the documentation, install `Sphinx`_ and configure CMake with -``-DSPHINX_HTML=ON`` and/or ``-DSPHINX_MAN=ON`` to enable the "html" or -"man" builder. Add ``-DSPHINX_EXECUTABLE=/path/to/sphinx-build`` if the -tool is not found automatically. - -.. _`Sphinx`: https://sphinx-doc.org - Reporting Bugs ============== |