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

Technical requirements

As with the previous chapters, the examples are tested with CMake 3.25 and are run on either of the following compilers:

The GNU Compiler Collection 9 (GCC 9) or newer, including the cross-compiler for the arm hard float (armhf) architecture
Clang 12 or newer
Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 19 (MSVC 19) or newer
For the Android examples, the Android Native Development Kit (Android NDK) 23b or newer is required. Instructions on installation can be found in the official Android developer documentation: https://developer.android.com/studio/projects/install-ndk.
For the Apple-embedded examples, Xcode 12 or newer and the iOS Software Development Kit 12.4 (iOS SDK 12.4) are recommended.

All examples and source code are available in the GitHub repository for this book. If any of the software is missing, the corresponding examples will be excluded from the build. The repository can be found here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/CMake-Best...