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The whole philosophy about cmake is to keep the build output artefacts separate from the source code. In this regard, netbeans gets it wrong when creating a project file from a CMakeLists.txt Automatic (option) should create a build folder called 'build' and place build output there! I don't want to have to go through several custom step just to choose a build output folder. I would recommend adding an addition field for build output folder name to the "new project" dialog, select mode step #2, by default have the folder name 'build' in this field. This way I can choose to create a new project from an existing project, point to my CMakeLists.txt file and click finish. Hassle free project creation.