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You're reading from CMake Cookbook Building, testing, and packaging modular software with modern CMake

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788470711

Length 606 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Cmake

Concepts

Application Development

Authors (2):

Radovan Bast

Roberto Di Remigio

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Setting up Your System FREE CHAPTER

2. From a Simple Executable to Libraries

3. Detecting the Environment

4. Detecting External Libraries and Programs

5. Creating and Running Tests

6. Configure-time and Build-time Operations

7. Generating Source Code

8. Structuring Projects

9. The Superbuild Pattern

10. Mixed-language Projects

11. Writing an Installer

12. Packaging Projects

13. Building Documentation

14. Alternative Generators and Cross-compilation

15. Testing Dashboards

16. Porting a Project to CMake

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Building documentation using Sphinx

The code for this recipe is available at https://github.com/dev-cafe/cmake-cookbook/tree/v1.0/chapter-12/recipe-02, and includes a C++ example. The recipe is valid with CMake version 3.5 (and higher) and has been tested on GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Sphinx is a Python program and a very popular documentation system (http://www.sphinx-doc.org). When used with Python projects, it can parse the source file for so-called docstrings and automatically produce documentation pages for functions and classes. However, Sphinx is not limited to Python, and can also parse reStructuredText, Markdown plain-text files, and generate HTML, ePUB, or PDF documentation. Coupled with the online Read the Docs service (https://readthedocs.org), it offers a great way to quickly get started with writing and deploying documentation. This recipe will show you how to...

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Authors (2)

Bast

Radovan is working at the High Performance Computing Group at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway in Troms and leads the CodeRefinery project. He has a PhD in theoretical chemistry and as code developer is contributing to a number of quantum chemistry programs. He enjoys learning new programming languages and techniques, and to teach programming to students and researchers. He got in touch with CMake in 2008 and has ported a number of research codes and migrated a number of communities to CMake since.

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Di Remigio

Roberto is a postdoctoral fellow in theoretical chemistry at the UiT - The Arctic University of Norway in Troms, Norway and Virginia Tech, USA. He is currently working on stochastic methods and solvation models. He is a developer of the PCMSolver library and the Psi4 open source quantum chemistry program. He contributes or has contributed to the development of popular quantum chemistry codes and libraries: DIRAC, MRCPP, DALTON, LSDALTON, XCFun, and ReSpect. He usually programs in C++ and Fortran.

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