cmaketerminalclion

Can I use cmake that bundled in CLion in my terminal?

So I have CLion IDE and I wonder if I can use Cmake that my CLion use straightly from terminal. Because the system tells me that cmake isn't installed so there is no cmake in /usr/bin.

Solution

  • Sure, all you need to do is find the absolute path to the CMake binary bundled with your CLion installation.

    # This can help you find the binary if you don't know where it is
# Substitute <dir> for where you want to search on the system
$ find <dir> -executable -type f -name cmake

# It will give you can output like this
/usr/foobar/baz/clion/cmake/3.24.0/bin/cmake

    Then you'll just need to add CMake to your path.

    Here is some bash code that does that:

    PATH="/usr/foobar/baz/clion/cmake/3.24.0/bin:$PATH"

export PATH

    Place the above code in your .bash_aliases or your .bashrc whichever approach you prefer. So that the PATH is persistently modified in your terminal sessions.

    Then reload .bashrc

    $> source .bashrc

    Then you'll know you succeeded when you get a result like this:

    $ cmake --version
cmake version 3.24.0

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