Portable build files don't appear to be a design goal... if you want those, you probably need a different tool. They do exist. As for distributing CMake, the i

Portable build files don't appear to be a design goal... if you want those, you probably need a different tool. They do exist. As for distributing CMake, the intention is presumably that it's installed on the system of whoever's going to build the code, like make, or gcc, or whatever.