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

Using CMake presets

While building software on a multitude of configurations, compilers, and platforms is CMake’s greatest strength, it is also one of its greatest weaknesses as this often makes it hard for a programmer to figure out the build setups that are actually tested and working for a given piece of software. Since version 3.19, CMake has had a feature called presets. This feature is a great tool to handle these scenarios in a reliable and convenient way. Before presets, developers had to rely on documentation and fuzzy conventions to figure out the preferred configuration of a CMake project. Presets can specify the build directory, generators, target architecture, host toolchain, cache variables, and environment variables to use with a project. Since CMake 3.19, presets have evolved quite a bit with the addition of build, test, and package presets, as well as the latest addition: workflow presets.

For using presets, the top directory of a project must contain a file...