### CMake status

We're currently in the [process of switching to CMake build system][cmake] and

you're welcome to take part in testing and improving it.

- all major components are buildable, installable and runnable

- building all components without installing ETL & core is not tested

Tested to work on (this will be updated as reports come in):

- Debian Sid

### Dependencies

You need development & library packages of the following libs:

- boost (system)

- zlib

- libsigc++-2.0

- glibmm-2.4

- giomm-2.4

- cairo

- libxml++-2.6

- mlt++

- fftw3

- pango

- gtkmm-3.0 (only for studio)

- gettext

- some threading support (e.g. pthread)

Generally CMake will throw error if it doesn't find something, so you can just

run it and see what's missing. Also note that this list might not be full.

### CMake backend

CMake provides generators for multiple build systems. You can use default `make`

or `ninja`, which should generally work somewhat faster. The following

configuration commands assume you want to use `ninja`. If you don't, remove

`-GNinja` from all commands containing it. All the building commands here are

invoked via cmake to make them (almost) backend-agnostic, but you can run `make`

or `ninja` directly (i.e.

`ninja all test` instead of `cmake --build . -- all test`).

### Build options

You may want to add `-jN` (where N is amount of threads you want to run) option

to build commands, because default for `make` is to run single-threaded and

`ninja` tends to use too much threads which eat up your RAM (may vary).

### Building

```

$ pushd ETL

$ mkdir build && pushd build

$ cmake -GNinja .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo

$ cmake --build . -- all test

$ sudo cmake --build . -- install

$ popd # build

$ popd # ETL

$ pushd synfig-core

$ mkdir build && pushd build

$ cmake -GNinja .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-fdiagnostics-color"

$ cmake --build . -- all

$ sudo cmake --build . -- install

$ popd # build

$ popd # synfig-core

$ pushd synfig-studio

$ mkdir build && pushd build

$ cmake -GNinja .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-fdiagnostics-color"

$ cmake --build . -- all

# this will take a while; alternatively, you can move/copy required images

# to build/images directory and skip this step

$ cmake --build . -- build_images

$ sudo cmake --build . -- install

$ popd # build

$ popd # synfig-studio

```

[cmake]:        https://github.com/synfig/synfig/issues/279