CMake Context Menu Item

A collection of scripts that add context menu items for launching CMake from the OS file manager.

Features

• Launches CMake GUI from the current folder's context menu
• Automatically sets the source and build directories

Note for CMake < 3.13

Up until CMake 3.12, we had to use the undocumented -H command line option to specify the source directory (i.e. the directory containing CMakeLists.txt).

Starting from CMake 3.13, a new -S option has been added to specify the source directory.

Therefore, if you have CMake < 3.13, you must replace -S with -H in the scripts that are provided by this repo for your file manager.

Supported File Managers

(click on the file manager's name to go to the instructions)

• Linux
  • Dolphin
  • Nautilus
  • Nemo
  • Thunar
• Windows
  • Windows File Explorer

Contributing

Bug fixes and pull requests (e.g. adding support to more file managers) are welcome :)

For the "CMake GUI Here" menu item, the main trick is to launch cmake-gui with the following arguments

# CMake <= 3.12
cmake-gui "-H<path to current folder>" "-B<path to current folder>/build"

# CMake >= 3.13
cmake-gui "-S<path to current folder>" "-B<path to current folder>/build"

Note that

• "-H..."/"-S..." and "-B..." are quoted
• There are no spaces after -H/-S and -B