[shadowmint]

FYI one of the lesser known features of cmake is that it can invoke your build tool as well:

    cmake ..
    cmake --build .

This smartly invokes make/ninja/msbuild or whatever directly from the command line; very useful on windows machines or to have 'universal' cmake runners for CI that touches multiple platforms.

(Also, tutorials; `cmake .. && cmake --build .` should smartly determine the correct compiler for the system and build it; you don't need the -G "FOO" stuff unless you're specifically doing something fancy)

[Polytonic]

TIL! This is awesome! I never knew about this.

What does it do under Windows? Does it run say, devenv.exe/msbuild in the shell, as opposed to in Visual Studio?

[shadowmint]

Yes, that's exactly what it does, if you're using the VS backend (which is the default).

(So you can actually be in 100% console mode in windows if you want and never launch VS. :)