You're reading from CMake Best Practices Discover proven techniques for creating and maintaining programming projects with CMake

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803239729

Length 406 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Cmake

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Application Development

Authors (2):

Dominik Berner

Mustafa Kemal Gilor

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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 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 with CMake

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 Big Projects and Distributed Repositories in a Superbuild

13. Chapter 11: Automated Fuzzing with CMake

14. Part 3: Mastering the Details

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

16. Chapter 13: Reusing CMake Code

17. Chapter 14: Optimizing and Maintaining CMake Projects

18. Chapter 15: Migrating to CMake

19. Chapter 16: Contributing to CMake and Further Reading Material

20. Assessments

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