CMake generators

• A CMake Generator is responsible for writing the input files for a native build system.
• The list of CMake generators is long and Unix Makefiles is only one of them.
• CMake makes it possible to use the native build environment.

List of generators

• Borland Makefiles
• MSYS Makefiles
• MinGW Makefiles
• NMake Makefiles
• NMake Makefiles JOM
• Ninja
• Unix Makefiles
• Watcom WMake
• Visual Studio 6
• Visual Studio 7
• Visual Studio 7 .NET 2003
• Visual Studio 8 2005
• Visual Studio 9 2008
• Visual Studio 10 2010
• Visual Studio 11 2012
• Visual Studio 12 2013
• Visual Studio 14 2015
• Visual Studio 15 2017
• Green Hills MULTI
• Xcode
• CodeBlocks
• CodeLite
• Eclipse CDT4
• KDevelop3
• Kate
• Sublime Text 2