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CMake Best Practices

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

Concepts

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

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Questions

Answer the following questions to test your knowledge of this chapter:

How can we instruct CMake to make a CMake target installable?
Which files are installed when a target is installed via the install(TARGETS) command?
For library targets, are header files installed by the install(TARGETS) command? Why? If not, what can be done to install them as well?
What does the GNUInstallDirs CMake module provide?
How can you selectively install a directory's content in a destination directory?
Why should we use relative paths when specifying install destination directories?
What are the essential files that are required for a config-file package?
What does exporting a target mean?
How can you make a CMake project packageable with CPack?

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Authors (2)

Berner

Berner

Dominik Berner is a software engineer, blogger, and conference speaker with 20 years of professional software development under his belt. He codes mainly in C++ and has worked on many software projects, from writing bleeding-edge software for surgical simulators in a startup, to maintaining large legacy platforms for large corporations in the MedTech industry, to creating IoT solutions and writing pilot software for drones. He believes that well-designed and maintained build environments are one of the key elements to enable teams to write software efficiently and excel at creating quality software. When he is not writing code, he occasionally writes articles for his blog or speaks at conferences about software development.

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Mustafa Kemal Gilor

Mustafa Kemal Gilor

Mustafa Kemal Gilor is an experienced professional working in performance-critical software development for the telecommunication and defense industries and open-source software. His expertise is in high-performance and scalable software design, network technologies, DevOps, and software architecture. His interest in computers emerged very early on in his childhood. He learned programming to hack MMORPG games at around the age of 12, and he has been writing software ever since. His favorite programming language is C++, and he enjoys doing framework design and system programming. He is also a strong advocate of CMake; he has maintained many codebases and ported many legacy projects to CMake throughout his career.

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