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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Appendix: Contributing to CMake and Further Reading Material

Developing on Apple with CMake

When developing on macOS, it’s important to understand Apple’s ecosystem and development expectations. Apple strongly encourages developers to use Xcode as their primary development environment, and CMake can generate build instructions for it. Xcode is a comprehensive suite of tools that includes a code editor, debugger, and other utilities designed specifically for macOS and iOS development. Apple frequently updates Xcode to include the latest features, bug fixes, and performance improvements. Therefore, developers are expected to upgrade to the latest version of Xcode regularly to ensure compatibility and take advantage of new capabilities.

The following command generates build instructions for Xcode:

cmake -S . -B ./build -G Xcode

After running the preceding command, CMake will generate an Xcode project file with the .xcodeproj extension in the build directory. This project can be opened directly in Xcode, or the project can...