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CMake Best Practices

CMake Best Practices - Second Edition

By : Berner, Mustafa Kemal Gilor
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CMake Best Practices

CMake Best Practices

By: Berner, Mustafa Kemal Gilor

Overview of this book

Discover the cutting-edge advancements in CMake with the new edition of CMake Best Practices. This book focuses on real-world applications and techniques to leverage CMake, avoiding outdated hacks and overwhelming documentation. You’ll learn how to use CMake presets for streamlined project configurations and embrace modern package management with Conan 2.0. Covering advanced methods to integrate third-party libraries and optimize cross-platform builds, this updated edition introduces new tools and techniques to enhance software quality, including testing frameworks, fuzzers, and automated documentation generation. Through hands-on examples, you’ll become proficient in structuring complex projects, ensuring that your builds run smoothly across different environments. Whether you’re integrating tools for continuous integration or packaging software for distribution, this book equips you with the skills needed to excel in modern software development. By the end of the book, you’ll have mastered setting up and maintaining robust software projects using CMake to streamline your development workflow and produce high-quality software.
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Part 1 – The Basics
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Part 2 – Practical CMake – Getting Your Hands Dirty with CMake
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Part 3 – Mastering the Details

Seamlessly Integrating Code Quality Tools with CMake

So far, we have focused on building and installing projects, as well as generating documentation and handling external dependencies. Another major task when writing quality software is testing and ensuring that code quality is at the desired level by various other means. To achieve high code quality, writing unit tests and executing them occasionally is no longer enough. If you want to produce high-quality software, having proper test tools that integrate easily with your build system is not a luxury but a necessity. Only when building and testing work effortlessly together can programmers focus on writing good tests, instead of focusing on getting those tests to run. Methods such as test-driven development bring huge value to software quality.

However, it is not just writing plain tests that increase the quality. Writing good tests is one thing; checking the effectiveness of the tests with coverage reports and ensuring general...

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