On: Introduction to the Autotools (2012)

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CMake does not take the place of GNU Make. It just generates your makefiles (or project files) for you. It handles all the hard parts, you just tell it what the files, libraries, and options you want are and it generates everything for you.

Here is an example project using CMake that is targeted for a MSP430 https://github.com/mpiannucci/HelloMSP430