Building Lighttpd using CMake

Starting with 1.5.0, the Lighttpd developers tried using CMake instead of Autotools to speed up the build process. However, it was apparently removed in the development snapshots, for which Autotools are used. If we come across a version with a CMakeLists.txt file, we can build it using CMake.

CMake can be run with the -i option to start it in the wizard mode so that we are queried on all options. This is probably the easiest way of setting up Lighttpd, but depending on how many installations we have we might want to do a command-line install. In this case, cmake -L gives us a list of options, which we can supply via the -D switch, as in:

cmake -DWITH_OPENSSL:BOOL=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/home/lighty