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Thanks for your recommendation!

Yes, I am just starting something small and new. And am now jumping the cliff of learning C, gcc, make, autotools, and gnulib-tool, of course all at the same time. Talking about a heap overflow ;)

Is it correct that CMake is a replacement for GNU Make? So far, GNU Make has not posed a problem. Can CMake assume some roles of the other tools as well? I am looking to have this interesting ride a little less bumpy.

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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

CMake and GNU Make have only the word 'Make' in common, CMake is an automatic build tool while the GNU Make is just a GNU version of plain old make tool. CMake is there to prepare a proper Makefile for the "GNU Make" to consume.

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