Technical requirements

Before you dive further into this chapter, you should have a good grasp of the content covered in Chapter 5, Integrating Third-Party Libraries and Dependency Management. This chapter will follow the teaching-by-example approach. Thus, it is recommended to obtain this chapter’s example content from https://github.com/PacktPublishing/CMake-Best-Practices---2nd-Edition/tree/main/chapter10. All of the examples assume that you will be using the container provided by the project at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/CMake-Best-Practices---2nd-Edition.

Let’s begin learning about super-builds by inspecting the prerequisites and requirements.