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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
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 20. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: Contributing to CMake and Further Reading Material

Maintaining good build configurations with presets

A common problem when building software with CMake is how to share good or working configurations to build a project. Often, people and teams have a preferred way of where the build artifacts should go, which generator to use on which platform, or just the desire that the CI environment should use the same settings to build as they do locally. Since CMake 3.19 came out in December 2020, this information can be stored in CMakePresets.json files, which are placed in the root directory of a project. Additionally, each user can superimpose their configuration with a CMakeUserPresets.json file. The basic presets are usually placed under version control, but the user presets are not checked into the version system. Both files follow the same JSON format, with the top-level outline being as follows:

{
"version": 6,
"cmakeMinimumRequired": {
"major": 3,
"minor": 23,
"patch": 0
},
"configurePresets...
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CMake Best Practices - Second Edition
Published in: Aug 2024
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781835880647
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