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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Summary

In this chapter, we learned that one of the main strengths of CMake is its versatility for building software using a variety of toolchains for a large number of platforms. The downside of this is that it sometimes can be hard for developers to find a working configuration for software. However, by supplying CMake presets, containers, and sysroots, it often gets easier to get started with a CMake project.

In this chapter, we looked in detail into how to define CMake presets to define working configuration setups, along with creating build and test definitions. Then, we briefly covered how to create a Docker container and how to invoke CMake commands within before closing the chapter with a brief look into sysroots and toolchain files. More about toolchains and sysroots will be covered in Chapter 12, Cross-Platform Compiling and Custom Toolchains.

In the next chapter, you will learn how to work with big, distributed projects as super builds. There, you will learn how to...