Installing CMake

CMake is a cross-platform, open-source software written in C++. That means you can, of course, compile it yourself; however, the most likely scenario is that you won't have to. This is because precompiled binaries are available for you to download from the official web page.

Unix-based systems provide ready-to-install packages directly from the command line.

Note: Remember that CMake doesn't come with compilers. If your system doesn't have them installed yet, you'll need to provide them before using CMake. Make sure to add the paths to their executables to the PATH environment variable so that CMake can find them.

To avoid solving tooling and dependency problems while learning from this course, we recommend choosing the first installation method: Docker. ...