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Software Architecture with C++

By : Adrian Ostrowski, Piotr Gaczkowski
Book Image

Software Architecture with C++

By: Adrian Ostrowski, Piotr Gaczkowski

Overview of this book

Software architecture refers to the high-level design of complex applications. It is evolving just like the languages we use, but there are architectural concepts and patterns that you can learn to write high-performance apps in a high-level language without sacrificing readability and maintainability. If you're working with modern C++, this practical guide will help you put your knowledge to work and design distributed, large-scale apps. You'll start by getting up to speed with architectural concepts, including established patterns and rising trends, then move on to understanding what software architecture actually is and start exploring its components. Next, you'll discover the design concepts involved in application architecture and the patterns in software development, before going on to learn how to build, package, integrate, and deploy your components. In the concluding chapters, you'll explore different architectural qualities, such as maintainability, reusability, testability, performance, scalability, and security. Finally, you will get an overview of distributed systems, such as service-oriented architecture, microservices, and cloud-native, and understand how to apply them in application development. By the end of this book, you'll be able to build distributed services using modern C++ and associated tools to deliver solutions as per your clients' requirements.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Section 1: Concepts and Components of Software Architecture
5
Section 2: The Design and Development of C++ Software
6
Architectural and System Design
10
Section 3: Architectural Quality Attributes
15
Section 4: Cloud-Native Design Principles
21
About Packt

Exporting

Exporting is a technique to add information about a package that you built locally to CMake's package registry. This is useful when you want your targets to be visible right from their build directories, even without installation. A common use for exporting is when you have several projects checked out on your development machine and you build them locally.

It's quite easy to add support for this mechanism from your CMakeLists.txt files. In our case, it can be done in this way:

export(
TARGETS libcustomer customer
NAMESPACE domifair::
FILE CustomerTargets.cmake)

set(CMAKE_EXPORT_PACKAGE_REGISTRY ON)
export(PACKAGE domifair)

This way, CMake will create a targets file similar to the one from the Installing section, defining our library and executable targets in the namespace we provided. From CMake 3.15, the package registry is disabled by default, so we need to enable it by setting the appropriate preceding variable. Then, we can put the information about our targets...