CMake for Mac

New Features:

Common Package Specification:

• Support for importing and exporting packages described using the Common Package Specification (CPS) was added. This improves build system interoperability by allowing expressive, feature-rich package descriptions to be exchanged in a format other than CMake Language.
• The find_package() now searches for and can import CPS packages.
• The install() and export() commands gained a new PACKAGE_INFO sub-command to generate CPS package descriptions.
• The project() command gained new COMPAT_VERSION and SPDX_LICENSE options. These values may be inherited when creating a CPS package description. See the install(PACKAGE_INFO) documentation for details.

Instrumentation:

• cmake-instrumentation(7) was added to enable collection of timing data, target information, and system diagnostic information during the configure, generate, build, test, and install steps of a CMake project:
• Instrumentation data are indexed and provided to callbacks for custom processing.
• Instrumentation data are included in submissions to CDash.
• Optionally, Google Trace Event Format files may be generated to visualize instrumentation data.

Presets:

• cmake-presets(7) files now support schema version 11. The jobs field under test presets now supports an empty string, to match the behavior of ctest --parallel with the value omitted.
• The jobs field under both build and test presets no longer accept negative integer values, regardless of the schema version.
• File-Based API:
• The cmake-file-api(7) "codemodel" version 2 version field has been updated to 2.10.
• The cmake-file-api(7) "codemodel" version 2 "target" object gained a new interfaceSources array field, and the sourceGroups array items gained a new interfaceSourceIndexes array field.
• Platforms:
• HIP language code may now be compiled for SPIR-V targets, e.g., via chipStar. See the CMAKE_HIP_PLATFORM variable.

Command-Line:

• cmake --version now supports a =json-v1 value to print detailed version information in a JSON format.
• cmake --build now supports specifying a build directory and preset together. The build preset will be used with the explicit build directory substituted.
• The cmake -E commands md5sum, sha1sum, sha224sum, sha256sum, sha384sum, and sha512sum now support reading from standard input by passing -.
• The cmake -E bin2c command-line tool was added.
• The cmake -E tar command-line tool:
• Gained a --cmake-tar-compression-level flag to specify the compression level.
• Gained a --cmake-tar-compression-method flag to specify the compression method.
• Gained a --cmake-tar-threads flag to enable multithreaded operations.
• Now supports specifying compression method and level for 7zip and zip formats.
• Gained a --format=raw flag to disable compression.
• Gained a --lzma flag to specify LZMA compression.

Commands:

• The cmake_instrumentation() command was added to make project-level instrumentation queries.
• The file(ARCHIVE_CREATE) command:
• Gained a THREADS option to enable multithreaded operations.
• Now supports COMPRESSION method Deflate as an alias for GZip.
• Now supports COMPRESSION method LZMA.
• Now supports COMPRESSION method LZMA2 as an alias for XZ.
• Now supports COMPRESSION method PPMd for format 7zip.
• Now supports COMPRESSION and COMPRESSION_LEVEL options for formats 7zip and zip.
• The get_property() and set_property() commands now support a FILE_SET scope for file set properties of a target.
• The string(JSON) command gained new GET_RAW and STRING_ENCODE modes.
• The source_group() command now supports generator expressions.
• The cmake_host_system_information() command gained a LOCALE_CHARSET query for the expected cmake-language(7) script encoding.

Variables:

• The CMAKE__LINK_FLAGS and CMAKE__LINK_FLAGS_ variables were added to support per-language link flags for all target types. See policy CMP0210.
• The CMAKE_VERIFY_PRIVATE_HEADER_SETS variable and corresponding VERIFY_PRIVATE_HEADER_SETS target property were added to enable build rules that verify all headers in private file sets can be used on their own.

Properties:

• A _PVS_STUDIO target property and supporting CMAKE__PVS_STUDIO variable were introduced to tell Makefile Generators and Ninja Generators to run pvs-studio-analyzer with the compiler for C and CXX languages.
• When VERIFY_INTERFACE_HEADER_SETS is set to true on an executable target, that target's interface file sets are verified regardless of its ENABLE_EXPORTS property. See policy CMP0209.
• The PRIVATE_HEADER_SETS_TO_VERIFY target property was added to customize which private file sets to verify when the target's VERIFY_PRIVATE_HEADER_SETS property is true.

Modules:

• The FindCUDAToolkit module now creates a CUDA::bin2c imported target for the bin2c utility.
• The FindLibXml2 module gained a LibXml2_USE_STATIC_LIBS hint to select static libraries.
• The FindRuby module now provides imported targets.
• The FindSQLite3 module now provides imported targets with the SQLite3:: prefix.
• The UseJava module's add_jar() command now accepts a new INCLUDE_MODULES option that adds its arguments to the --module-path argument to the Java compiler. This allows building JAR files that use JPMS modules in their build.

Generator Expressions:

• String Comparison generator expressions were added.
• $ generator expressions were added for query, generation, and transformation operations on strings.
• The $ and $ generator expressions were added to query file set existence and properties.
• The $ and $ generator expressions were added to query source file existence and properties.

CTest:

The CTestCoverageCollectGCOV module:

• Now supports TARBALL_COMPRESSION method LZMA.
• Now supports TARBALL_COMPRESSION method LZMA2 as an alias for XZ.
• Now supports FROM_EXT with file extensions corresponding to LZMA and ZSTD compression.

CPack:

• CPack gained the CPACK_COMPRESSION_LEVEL variable to control the compression level used when creating packages.

The CPack Archive Generator:

• Now supports compression method specification for formats 7zip and zip.
• Gained a CPACK_ARCHIVE_COMPRESSION_LEVEL option to control the compression level used when creating archive packages.
• Gained CPACK_ARCHIVE_UID and CPACK_ARCHIVE_GID options to specify the UID and GID of archive entries, respectively. The defaults are UID 0 and GID 0. See policy CMP0206.
• The CPack DEB Generator gained a new CPACK_DEBIAN_COMPRESSION_LEVEL variable to control the compression level used when creating Debian packages.
• The CPack WIX Generator now supports per-user installers by setting CPACK_WIX_INSTALL_SCOPE to perUser.

Deprecated and Removed Features:

• The CMAKE_ENABLE_EXPORTS variable is deprecated in favor of the CMAKE_EXECUTABLE_ENABLE_EXPORTS and CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_ENABLE_EXPORTS variables.
• The export(EXPORT) command no longer allows certain arguments to be missing or empty. See policy CMP0208.

Other Changes:

• The cmake -E tar command-line tool and the file(ARCHIVE_EXTRACT) command now reject archive entries whose paths are absolute or contain .. path traversal components.
• The family of cmake --trace and related commands now print "end" commands for control structures: endblock(), endforeach(), endfunction(), endif(), endmacro(), and endwhile().
• The file(CREATE_LINK) command's COPY_ON_ERROR option, when used with a directory, now copies directory content. See policy CMP0205.
• The file(GET_RUNTIME_DEPENDENCIES) and install(RUNTIME_DEPENDENCY_SET) commands now normalize paths before matching filters. See policy CMP0207.
• The precompiled Linux aarch64 binaries provided on cmake.org now require GLIBC 2.28 or higher.
• The precompiled macOS binary provided on cmake.org for macOS 10.13+ now requires macOS 12 or newer for the cmake-gui(1) application. The command-line tools still run on macOS 10.13.
• The precompiled Windows binaries provided on cmake.org now require Windows 10 or higher.