You're reading from CMake Best Practices Upgrade your C++ builds with CMake for maximum efficiency and scalability

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835880647

Length 356 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Cmake

Concepts

Application Development

Authors (2):

Mustafa Kemal Gilor

Dominik Berner

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 – The Basics

2. Chapter 1: Kickstarting CMake FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Accessing CMake in the Best Ways

4. Chapter 3: Creating a CMake Project

5. Part 2 – Practical CMake – Getting Your Hands Dirty with CMake

6. Chapter 4: Packaging, Deploying, and Installing a CMake Project

7. Chapter 5: Integrating Third-Party Libraries and Dependency Management

8. Chapter 6: Automatically Generating Documentation

9. Chapter 7: Seamlessly Integrating Code Quality Tools with CMake

10. Chapter 8: Executing Custom Tasks with CMake

11. Chapter 9: Creating Reproducible Build Environments

12. Chapter 10: Handling Distributed Repositories and Dependencies in a Super-Build

13. Chapter 11: Creating Software for Apple Systems

14. Part 3 – Mastering the Details

15. Chapter 12: Cross-Platform-Compiling Custom Toolchains

16. Chapter 13: Reusing CMake Code

17. Chapter 14: Optimizing and Maintaining CMake Projects

18. Chapter 15: Migrating to CMake

19. Index

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Appendix: Contributing to CMake and Further Reading Material

Technical requirements

As with the previous chapters, the examples are tested with CMake 3.24 and run on any of the following compilers:

GCC 9 or newer
Clang 12 or newer
MSVC 19 or newer

Some of the examples for code coverage, sanitizers, and static code analysis require GCC or Clang to run and will not work with MSVC. To run Clang on Windows, take a look at Chapter 9, Creating Reproducible Build Environments, where toolchain files are introduced. Some examples need the Catch2 unit testing suite installed to compile. Some examples pull dependencies from various online locations, so an internet connection is required as well.

In addition to a working compiler, the following software is used for the examples:

Gcov, Gcovr, and lcov for the Linux examples on code coverage
Opencppcoverage for the Windows examples on code coverage
Clang-tidy, Cppcheck, Cpplint, and include-what-you-use for the examples on static code analyzers