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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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20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix: Contributing to CMake and Further Reading Material

Technical requirements

To run the examples in this chapter, you will need a recent C++ compiler that understands C++17. Although the examples are not complex enough to require the functionality of the new standard, the examples have been set up accordingly.

We recommend using any of the compilers listed here to run the examples:

Linux: GCC 9 or newer, Clang 10 or newer
Windows: MSVC 19 or newer or MinGW 9.0.0 or newer
macOS: AppleClang 10 or newer

The complete samples used in this chapter can be found at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/CMake-Best-Practices---2nd-Edition/tree/main/chapter01

Note

To try out any examples in this book, we have provided a ready-made Docker container that contains all the requirements.

You can find it at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/CMake-Best-Practices---2nd-Edition.

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