Cmakeant provides a simple ant task to integrate cmake projects into larger projects built with ant. It makes it easier to control multiplatform cmake builds from a single ant file, different cmake generators and configurations can be specified based on the operating system executing the build. Ant properties can be passed to into cmake as variables and and cmake variables to passed back to ant as properties.

This task calls cmake to generate the platform specific build files (ide projects or makefiles). It then uses the generated files to build the project, reading the CMakeCache.txt to resolve the platform's appropriate build command. This enables a single ant task to call cmake on any platform, hiding the platform specific code required to launch the build from ant.

See CmakeDoc for more information.

Why use cmakeant?

You want to build cross platform c/c++ code with ant. This might be because your c/c++ code is part of a bigger java code base, your continuous build system uses ant or you just find the features in ant useful for controlling your build. Cmakeant simplifies the cross platform issues calling cmake from ant, making your ant file and cmake files easier to write and maintain.