vim-cmake is a Vim plugin to make working with CMake a little nicer.

I got tired of navitating to the build directory each time, and I also disliked setting makeprg manually each time. This plugin does just that.

• :CMake searches for the closest directory named build in an upwards search, and whenever one is found, it runs the cmake command there, assuming the CMakeLists.txt file is just one directory above. Any arguments given to :CMake will be directly passed on to the cmake command. It also sets the working directory of the make command, so you can just use quickfix as with a normal Makefile project.

• :CMakeClean deletes all files in the build directory. You can think of this as a CMake version of make clean.

• g:cmake_install_prefix same as -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX

• g:cmake_build_type same as -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE

• g:cmake_cxx_compiler same as -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER. The build directory will be cleared the next time you run :CMake.

• g:cmake_c_compiler same as -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER. The build directory will be cleared the next time you run :CMake.

• g:cmake_build_shared_libs same as -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS

If you don't have a preferred installation method, I recommend installing pathogen.vim, and then simply copy and paste:

cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone git://github.com/vhdirk/vim-cmake.git

Once help tags have been generated, you can view the manual with :help cmake.

• Thanks to Tim Pope, his plugins are really awesome.
• Thanks to @SteveDeFacto for extending this with more fine grained control.

Copyright (c) Dirk Van Haerenborgh, @SteveDeFacto. Distributed under the same terms as Vim itself. See :help license.