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CMake Cookbook

You're reading from   CMake Cookbook Building, testing, and packaging modular software with modern CMake

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788470711
Length 606 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Radovan Bast Radovan Bast
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Roberto Di Remigio Roberto Di Remigio
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting up Your System 2. From a Simple Executable to Libraries FREE CHAPTER 3. Detecting the Environment 4. Detecting External Libraries and Programs 5. Creating and Running Tests 6. Configure-time and Build-time Operations 7. Generating Source Code 8. Structuring Projects 9. The Superbuild Pattern 10. Mixed-language Projects 11. Writing an Installer 12. Packaging Projects 13. Building Documentation 14. Alternative Generators and Cross-compilation 15. Testing Dashboards 16. Porting a Project to CMake 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Compiling a single source file into an executable

The code for this recipe is available at https://github.com/dev-cafe/cmake-cookbook/tree/v1.0/chapter-01/recipe-01 and has C++, C, and Fortran examples. The recipe is valid with CMake version 3.5 (and higher) and has been tested on GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.

In this recipe, we will demonstrate how to run CMake to configure and build a simple project. The project consists of a single source file for a single executable. We will discuss the project in C++, but examples for C and Fortran are available in the GitHub repository.

Getting ready

We wish to compile the following source code into a single executable:

#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>
#include <string...
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CMake Cookbook
Published in: Sep 2018
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781788470711
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