RCE 55: CMake Cross Platform Make

Created on Thursday, 19 May 2011 02:33
Written by Brock Palen

Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with Bill Hoffman of Kitware Inc. on CMake the cross-platform, open-source build system. CMake is a family of tools designed to build, test and package software. CMake is used to control the software compilation process using simple platform and compiler independent configuration files.

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Mr. Hoffman is currently Vice President and CTO for Kitware Inc. He is a founder of Kitware and has been part of the management team since 1999. Bill has 20+ years of experience with large C++ systems. He is a lead architect of the CMake cross-platform build system and co-author of the Mastering CMake book. Mr. Hoffman is also involved in the development of the Kitware Quality Software Process and CDash, the software testing server. He has also made major contributions to VTK (RCE 18), ITK and ParaView (RCE 41). As CTO for Kitware, he guides the implementation and development of large-scale computing solutions, and oversees computer infrastructure decisions.