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CMake Cookbook

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788470711
Length 606 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Radovan Bast Radovan Bast
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Roberto Di Remigio Roberto Di Remigio
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting up Your System 2. From a Simple Executable to Libraries FREE CHAPTER 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

Building C++ and Python projects using Boost.Python

The code for this recipe is available at https://github.com/dev-cafe/cmake-cookbook/tree/v1.0/chapter-09/recipe-04 and has a C++ example. The recipe is valid with CMake version 3.5 (and higher) and has been tested on GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.

The Boost libraries offer another popular alternative to interface C++ code with Python. This recipe will show how to use CMake for C++ projects that rely on Boost.Python to expose their functionality as a Python module. We will reuse the example from the previous recipe and attempt to interact with the same C++ implementation (account.cpp) as in the Cython example.

Getting ready

While we keep account.cpp unchanged, we modify the...

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