UseLatexMk is a cmake tool to build Latex documents from cmake projects.

Instead of doing the tedious work of implementing all the logic on how to build Latex files in the CMake language (like the better known UseLATEX does), it uses the LatexMk tool found on the system. As a result, there are some advantages of using UseLatexMk.cmake over using UseLATEX.cmake:

• Additional input files, like e.g. code listing, do not have to be manually listed anymore. Dependency tracking is done by LatexMk instead of cmake.
• The generation procedure is more robust, because it relies on an upstream tool with a wider userbase.
• Additional (sophisticated) build logic can be provided to latexmkrc through configuration files without touching the CMake code. Note, you need to do this to build non-PDF documents.
• A target clean_latex to clean the build directory from all latex output and auxiliary latex files is available.

Please note the following restrictions:

UseLatexMk relies on latexmk separating input and output directory correctly. This includes using an absolute path for the output directory. On some TeX systems this requires the disabling of a security measure by setting openout_any = a. See UseLatexMk.cmake for additional information on the matter.

UseLatexMk is mainly designed to build PDF documents. You may enable building other types of documents by providing a custom latexmkrc template, but you may experience incompatibilities with other parts of UseLatexMk, such as installation.

The minted package is a bit special regarding its placement of auxiliary files. In order to use it with UseLatexMk you should use the following parameters to \usepackage:

\usepackage[outputdir=@CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR@]{minted}

You just need to

• copy all the CMake modules (*.cmake) from this project into your project
• Include them with include(UseLatexMk). This is best done from the top-level directory of your project, to make the clean_latex target available on that level.
• Use CMake 3.10 or newer.

Now, you are ready to use it!

Just use the following CMake function add_latex_document from anywhere in your project. For an explanation of parameters, check UseLatexMk.cmake.

To clean the build directory from all latex files, use the target clean_latex.

This software is provided under a BSD license, you can find it in the .cmake files of the project.