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CMake Best Practices

You're reading from   CMake Best Practices Upgrade your C++ builds with CMake for maximum efficiency and scalability

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835880647
Length 356 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Mustafa Kemal Gilor Mustafa Kemal Gilor
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Dominik Berner Dominik Berner
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – The Basics FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Kickstarting CMake 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 20. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: Contributing to CMake and Further Reading Material

Building your first project

Now, it’s time to get your hands dirty and see if your installation worked. We have provided an example of a simple hello world project that you can download and build right away. Open a console, type in the following, and you’ll be ready to go:

git clone   https://github.com/PacktPublishing/CMake-Best-Practices---2nd-Edition.git
cd CMake-Best-Practices---2nd-Edition/chapter01/simple_executable
cmake -S . -B build
cmake -–build ./build

This will result in an executable called ch_simple_executable that prints out Welcome to CMake Best Practices on the console.

Let’s have a detailed look at what happened here:

First, the example repository is checked out using Git. The file structure of the example CMake project located in the chapter01/simple_executable subfolder will look like this before the build:

.
├── CMakeLists.txt
└── src
    └...
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