To generate build files for your platform run in a command terminal: cd Build cmake -G GENERATOR .. Valid generators are: Windows: "Visual Studio 12 2013 Win64" "Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64" "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" Mac: "Xcode" Linux: (see note below) "Unix Makefiles" Example: cmake -G "Visual Studio 12 2013 Win64" .. For Linux Only: On linux, Debug and Release options are generated by cmake and must be specified like so: cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .. or cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ..