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

Defining, discovering, and running tests

Testing is the staple diet for any software engineer who takes pride in quality software. The number of frameworks to write unit tests in the various languages is huge, and, especially for C++, CMake includes modules to work with most of the more popular ones.

At very abstract levels, all unit testing frameworks do the following:

Allow the formulation and grouping of test cases
Contain some form of assertion to check for various test conditions
Discover and run test cases, either altogether or a selection of them
Produce a test result in a variety of formats, such as plain text, JSON, and XML

With the CTest utility, CMake includes a built-in way to execute almost any test. Any CMake project that has set enable_testing() and added at least one test with add_test() has testing support enabled. Any call to enable_testing() will enable test discovery in the current directory and any directory below it, so it is often...