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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)

Introduction

In previous chapters, we have shown how to configure, build, and test our projects using CMake. Installing projects is an equally important part of the developer's toolbox, and this chapter will demonstrate how to achieve that. The recipes in this chapter cover the install-time operations outlined in the following diagram:

We will walk you through the various steps to be taken in refining the installation of a simple C++ project: from making sure that important files built in your project are copied over to the right directories, to ensuring that other projects depending on your work can detect it using CMake. The four recipes in this chapter will build upon the simple example given in Chapter 1, From a Simple Executable to Libraries, Recipe 3, Building and linking shared and static libraries. There we tried to build a very simple library and link it into an...