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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Executing Custom Tasks with CMake

Building and shipping software can be a complex task, and no tool can ever do all the different tasks that are needed to build and ship a project. At some point, you may want to execute a task that is not covered by a compiler or CMake’s functionality. Common tasks include archiving build artifacts, creating hashes to verify downloads, or generating or customizing input files for a build. There are also lots of other specialized tasks that depend on the environment that certain software is built in.

In this chapter, we will learn how to include such custom tasks in a CMake project and how to create custom build targets and custom commands. We will go over how to create and manage dependencies between targets and how to include or exclude them from standard builds.

Including such external programs in the build steps of a project can help ensure that code is kept consistent, even when many people contribute to it. As a CMake build is very...