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Modern CMake for C++

You're reading from   Modern CMake for C++ Discover a better approach to building, testing, and packaging your software

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801070058
Length 460 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rafał Świdziński Rafał Świdziński
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introducing CMake
2. Chapter 1: First Steps with CMake FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: The CMake Language 4. Chapter 3: Setting Up Your First CMake Project 5. Section 2: Building With CMake
6. Chapter 4: Working with Targets 7. Chapter 5: Compiling C++ Sources with CMake 8. Chapter 6: Linking with CMake 9. Chapter 7: Managing Dependencies with CMake 10. Section 3: Automating With CMake
11. Chapter 8: Testing Frameworks 12. Chapter 9: Program Analysis Tools 13. Chapter 10: Generating Documentation 14. Chapter 11: Installing and Packaging 15. Chapter 12: Creating Your Professional Project 16. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: Miscellaneous Commands

Thinking about the project structure

It's no secret that as a project grows, it becomes harder and harder to find things in it – both in listfiles and in the source code. Therefore, it is very important to maintain the project hygiene right from the get-go.

Imagine a scenario where you need to deliver some important, time-sensitive changes, and they don't fit well in either of the two directories in your project. Now, you need to quickly push a cleanup commit that introduces more directories and another level of hierarchy for your files so that your changes can have a nice place to fit. Or (what's worse), you decide to just shove them anywhere and create a ticket to deal with the issue later.

Over the course of the year, these tickets accumulate, the technical debt grows, and so does the cost of maintaining the code. This becomes extremely troublesome when there's a crippling bug in a live system that needs a quick fix and when people unfamiliar with...

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