为此，我使用以下shell脚本:

#!/bin/bash

for fld in $(find -name "CMakeLists.txt" -printf '%h ')
do
    for cmakefile in CMakeCache.txt cmake_install.cmake CTestTestfile.cmake CMakeFiles Makefile
    do
        rm -rfv $fld/$cmakefile
    done
done

如果您使用的是Windows，则使用Cygwin来执行此脚本。

在Git无处不在的今天，你可能会忘记CMake，而使用Git clean -d -f -x，这将删除所有不在源代码控制下的文件。

为了简化使用“源外”构建时的清理(即在构建目录中构建)，我使用以下脚本:

$ cat ~/bin/cmake-clean-build
#!/bin/bash

if [ -d ../build ]; then
    cd ..
    rm -rf build
    mkdir build
    cd build
else
    echo "build directory DOES NOT exist"
fi

每次你需要清理时，你应该从build目录中获取这个脚本:

. cmake-clean-build

你可以这样使用:

add_custom_target(clean-cmake-files
   COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -P clean-all.cmake
)

// clean-all.cmake
set(cmake_generated ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/CMakeCache.txt
                    ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/cmake_install.cmake
                    ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/Makefile
                    ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/CMakeFiles
)

foreach(file ${cmake_generated})

  if (EXISTS ${file})
     file(REMOVE_RECURSE ${file})
  endif()

endforeach(file)

我通常创建一个“make clean-all”命令，在前面的例子中添加一个调用“make clean”:

add_custom_target(clean-all
   COMMAND ${CMAKE_BUILD_TOOL} clean
   COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -P clean-all.cmake
)

不要尝试将“clean”目标添加为依赖项:

add_custom_target(clean-all
   COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -P clean-all.cmake
   DEPENDS clean
)

因为“干净”在CMake中不是一个真正的目标，这是行不通的。

此外，你不应该使用这个“clean-cmake-files”作为任何东西的依赖:

add_custom_target(clean-all
   COMMAND ${CMAKE_BUILD_TOOL} clean
   DEPENDS clean-cmake-files
)

因为，如果你这样做，所有的CMake文件将在clean-all完成之前被擦除，make将抛出一个搜索“CMakeFiles/clean-all.dir/build.make”的错误。因此，在任何情况下，都不能在"anything"前面使用clean-all命令:

add_custom_target(clean-all
   COMMAND ${CMAKE_BUILD_TOOL} clean
   COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -P clean-all.cmake
)

这也不行。

CMake 3。X

CMake 3。X提供了一个“干净”的目标。

cmake --build C:/foo/build/ --target clean

来自3.0.2版本的CMake文档:

--clean-first  = Build target 'clean' first, then build.
                 (To clean only, use --target 'clean'.)

CMake 2。X

在cmake版本2中没有cmake clean。X

我通常在一个类似“build”的文件夹中构建项目。如果我想弄清楚，我可以rm -rf构建。

在与根目录“CMakeLists.txt”相同的目录中的“build”文件夹通常是一个不错的选择。要构建你的项目，你只需要把CMakeLists.txt文件的位置作为参数给cmake。例如:cd <location-of-cmakelists>/build && cmake…(从@ComicSansMS)

CMake官方常见问题解答说明:

Some build trees created with GNU autotools have a "make distclean" target that cleans the build and also removes Makefiles and other parts of the generated build system. CMake does not generate a "make distclean" target because CMakeLists.txt files can run scripts and arbitrary commands; CMake has no way of tracking exactly which files are generated as part of running CMake. Providing a distclean target would give users the false impression that it would work as expected. (CMake does generate a "make clean" target to remove files generated by the compiler and linker.) A "make distclean" target is only necessary if the user performs an in-source build. CMake supports in-source builds, but we strongly encourage users to adopt the notion of an out-of-source build. Using a build tree that is separate from the source tree will prevent CMake from generating any files in the source tree. Because CMake does not change the source tree, there is no need for a distclean target. One can start a fresh build by deleting the build tree or creating a separate build tree.