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Modern CMake for C++

You're reading from   Modern CMake for C++ Discover a better approach to building, testing, and packaging your software

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801070058
Length 460 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rafał Świdziński Rafał Świdziński
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introducing CMake
2. Chapter 1: First Steps with CMake FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: The CMake Language 4. Chapter 3: Setting Up Your First CMake Project 5. Section 2: Building With CMake
6. Chapter 4: Working with Targets 7. Chapter 5: Compiling C++ Sources with CMake 8. Chapter 6: Linking with CMake 9. Chapter 7: Managing Dependencies with CMake 10. Section 3: Automating With CMake
11. Chapter 8: Testing Frameworks 12. Chapter 9: Program Analysis Tools 13. Chapter 10: Generating Documentation 14. Chapter 11: Installing and Packaging 15. Chapter 12: Creating Your Professional Project 16. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: Miscellaneous Commands

Chapter 12: Creating Your Professional Project

We gathered all the required knowledge to build professional projects; we learned about structuring, building, dependency management, testing, analyzing, installing, and packaging. It's time to put these acquired skills into practice by creating a coherent, professional project.

The important thing to understand is that even trivial programs will benefit from automated quality checks and a streamlined end-to-end process that turns raw code into a fully fledged solution. It's true that this is often a considerable investment, as many steps need to be taken in order to prepare everything right – even more so if we're trying to add these mechanisms to already existing code bases (usually, they're already large and convoluted).

That's the very reason to use CMake from the get-go and set all the piping upfront; not only it will be easier to configure but, more importantly, it's also much more efficient...

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