From 61439e6bf4426e4bfb2cf3f288574ff443a36f44 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: firewave <firewave@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2023 19:41:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] bumped minimum required CMake version to 3.5

---
 CMakeLists.txt   | 2 +-
 readme.md        | 2 ++
 releasenotes.txt | 1 +
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 34dd57867bb..c4deaee89e7 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.12)
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5)
 project(Cppcheck)
 
 include(cmake/cxx11.cmake)
diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
index efcf52fdc62..d14d73e10da 100644
--- a/readme.md
+++ b/readme.md
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ There are multiple compilation choices:
 
 ### CMake
 
+The minimum required version is CMake 3.5.
+
 Example, compiling Cppcheck with cmake:
 
 ```shell
diff --git a/releasenotes.txt b/releasenotes.txt
index 0281a36acda..29c5ac502a2 100644
--- a/releasenotes.txt
+++ b/releasenotes.txt
@@ -18,3 +18,4 @@ Deprecations:
 Other:
 - Added CMake option 'EXTERNALS_AS_SYSTEM' to treat external includes as 'SYSTEM' ones.
 - The minimum required compiler versions have been bumped to GCC 5.1 / Clang 3.5 / Visual Studio 2015
+- The minimum required CMake version has been bumped to 3.5