CMake for Maya

CMake module for Autodesk Maya. Works on Windows, OSX and Linux.

Usage:

Download and install CMake from https://cmake.org and check if it works typing "cmake -h" in your terminal
Download Autodesk Maya SDK for your version of Maya and place the SDK content in MayaPlugins/SDK/maya20xx folder (the structure of MayaPlugins build environment is attached here)
Run a terminal and make ~/MayaPlugins/build folder as a current folder
For Windows users: type cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" ../ using your version of Vusial Studio
If we want to build a plugin for some specific maya version, we use cmake G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" -DMAYA_VERSION=2016 ../
For Linux users: type cmake -G "Unix makefiles" ../
For OSX users: type cmake -G "Xcode" ../ or cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" ../
After building the solution (sln) we can compile it with cmake --build . --config Release. It is important that the current dir is the build one, where the solution files are located.
If we want to copy compiled plug-in somewhere (maya plugins folder), we use cmake --build . --config Release --target Install. It will copy the built plug-in to a folder, specified with CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX (CMakeLists.txt)

In Linux source building procedure creates Makefile, which we can compile into .so file (the actual plug-in), using make -f Makefile.
Code editors (sublime, vscode etc.) have CMake syntax highlighters, that can be downloaded from app markets.
In the root folder of the project should be a CMakeLists.txt, which contains rules of building and compiling plugins.
We can create extra CMake modules for finding specific includes and libs (not only Maya SDK but some others). These modules should be named Find{NAME}.cmake, like FindMaya.cmake. This module should be included to CMakeLists.txt.
When we build solutions for VS or XCode, when we open them in the editors, we can see ZERO_CHECK and ALL_BUILD projects. ZERO_CHECK - reloads cmake files if we did some changes there. Like if we decided to change a path where compiled plugins will be located, we don't have to rebuild the solution from a terminal. To turn off this project, in CMakeLists.txt we should set(CMAKE_SUPPRESS_REGENERATION true). ALL_BUILD builds all projects in the currently opened solution.