Migrate from Jam to CMake

Question

I understand Jam builds existing projects and CMake generates projects to build. But, given I'd rather be generating projects I could use in various IDE's rather than trying to integrate Jam into those IDE's, has anybody had any experience/success turning a Jamfile into a CMakeLists.txt file?

Answer 1

So I eventually decided the best thing to do was to start a CMAKE project from scratch. Our Jam project was such a mess, I didn't want to carry over the cruft of our spaghetti build.

I found these resources to be most helpful

http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Useful_Variables http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v2.8.10/cmake.html