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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Apple frameworks

macOS frameworks are collections of reusable classes, functions, and resources designed to simplify the development of macOS applications. They provide a structured way to access system functionality and integrate seamlessly with macOS.

Linking against frameworks is very similar to linking normal libraries. First, they are located with find_package or find_library and then used with target_link_libraries, with a slightly different syntax. The following example links the Cocoa framework to the ch11_hello_world_apple target:

target_link_libraries(ch11_hello_world_apple PRIVATE
"-framework Cocoa")

Not that the –framework keyword is necessary and that the name should be quoted. If multiple frameworks are linked, all of them need to be quoted individually.

Now that we can use frameworks, let’s look into creating our own. Frameworks are quite similar to app bundles, with a few differences. Notably, it is possible to install multiple versions...