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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

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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20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix: Contributing to CMake and Further Reading Material

Accessing CMake in the Best Ways

In the previous chapter, we got acquainted with CMake and learned about its fundamental concepts. Now, we are going to learn how to interact with it. Learning how to interact with CMake is essential. Before you dive into structuring your software project with CMake, you must first learn how to configure, build, and install the existing ones. This will enable you to interact with CMake projects.

This chapter will look into what CMake has to offer as an interface and inspect some of the popular IDE and editor integrations. This chapter will cover the following:

Using CMake via a command-line interface
Using cmake-gui and ccmake interfaces
IDE and editor integrations (Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code (VSCode), and Qt Creator)

Since we have a lot to cover, let’s not waste any time and get started with the technical requirements.

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Authors (2)

Dominik Berner

Dominik Berner

Dominik Berner is a software engineer, blogger, and conference speaker with 20 years of professional software development under his belt. He codes mainly in C++ and has worked on many software projects, from writing bleeding-edge software for surgical simulators in a startup, to maintaining large legacy platforms for large corporations in the MedTech industry, to creating IoT solutions and writing pilot software for drones. He believes that well-designed and maintained build environments are one of the key elements to enable teams to write software efficiently and excel at creating quality software. When he is not writing code, he occasionally writes articles for his blog or speaks at conferences about software development.

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Mustafa Kemal Gilor

Mustafa Kemal Gilor

Mustafa Kemal Gilor is an experienced professional working in performance-critical software development for the telecommunication and defense industries and open-source software. His expertise is in high-performance and scalable software design, network technologies, DevOps, and software architecture. His interest in computers emerged very early on in his childhood. He learned programming to hack MMORPG games at around the age of 12, and he has been writing software ever since. His favorite programming language is C++, and he enjoys doing framework design and system programming. He is also a strong advocate of CMake; he has maintained many codebases and ported many legacy projects to CMake throughout his career.

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