The code for this recipe is available at https://github.com/dev-cafe/cmake-cookbook/tree/v1.0/chapter-05/recipe-06 and has a C++ example. The recipe is valid with CMake version 3.9 (and higher) and has been tested on GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows. The code repository also contains an example compatible with CMake 3.5.
One of the most common operations during build system generation is to assess what kind of system we are trying to build our project on. That means trying to find out which functionality works and which does not, and adapting the compilation of our project accordingly, either by signaling that dependencies are unmet or by enabling proper workarounds in our codebase. The next few recipes will show how to perform these operations with CMake. In particular, we will consider the following:
- How to make sure that specific code snippets...
