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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

Writing your own find-modules

On a rare occasion, the library that you really want to use in your project doesn't provide a config-file or a PkgConfig file, and there's no find-module readily available in CMake already. You can then write a custom find-module for that library and ship it with your project. This situation is not ideal, but in the interest of taking care of the users of your project, it has to be done.

Since we have already become familiar with libpqxx in the previous section, let's write a nice find-module for it. We start by writing in a new FindPQXX.cmake file, which we'll store in the cmake/module directory of our project source tree. We need to make sure that the find-module gets discovered by the CMake when find_package() is called, so we'll add this path to the CMAKE_MODULE_PATH variable in our CMakeLists.txt with list(APPEND). The whole list file should look like this:

chapter07/04-find-package-custom/CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required...
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