Using CMake

CMake is a makefile maker, or meta-makefile: it allows the describe project compilation rules that can be translated to various build system on many platforms (make, XCode, Visual C++, nmake, ...). CMake is free and open source. Usually, it is available on your system: try cmake on the command line. If not available, you can install it using package managers:

 yum install cmake (Linux Centos)
  or
 apt-get install cmake (Linux ubuntu)
  or
 port install cmake (MacOS)

or you can download binaries from the CMake web site (e.g. for windows).

When a recent version of CMake is required, try cmake3 instead of cmake.