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

Before you dive further into this chapter, you should have a good grasp of the content covered in Chapter 4, Packaging, Deploying, and Installing a CMake Project, and Chapter 5, Integrating Third-Party Libraries and Dependency Management. The techniques that will be used in this chapter are all covered in those two chapters. Additionally, it is recommended to obtain this chapter’s example content from https://github.com/PacktPublishing/CMake-Best-Practices---2nd-Edition/tree/main/chapter06. All the examples assume that you will be using the development environment container provided by the project found at the following link: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/CMake-Best-Practices---2nd-Edition. This is a Debian-like environment that contains all the prerequisites installed beforehand. Commands and outputs may differ slightly if a different environment is used. If you are not using the provided Docker container, ensure that you have installed Doxygen,...