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CMake Cookbook

By : Radovan Bast, Roberto Di Remigio
Book Image

CMake Cookbook

By: Radovan Bast, Roberto Di Remigio

Overview of this book

CMake is cross-platform, open-source software for managing the build process in a portable fashion. This book features a collection of recipes and building blocks with tips and techniques for working with CMake, CTest, CPack, and CDash. CMake Cookbook includes real-world examples in the form of recipes that cover different ways to structure, configure, build, and test small- to large-scale code projects. You will learn to use CMake's command-line tools and master modern CMake practices for configuring, building, and testing binaries and libraries. With this book, you will be able to work with external libraries and structure your own projects in a modular and reusable way. You will be well-equipped to generate native build scripts for Linux, MacOS, and Windows, simplify and refactor projects using CMake, and port projects to CMake.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Configure-time and Build-time Operations

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Using platform-independent file operations
  • Running a custom command at configure time
  • Running a custom command at build time: I. Using add_custom_command
  • Running a custom command at build time: II. Using add_custom_target
  • Running custom commands for specific targets at build time
  • Probing compilation and linking
  • Probing compiler flags
  • Probing execution
  • Fine-tuning configuration and compilation with generator expressions