CMake Best Practices : Upgrade Your C++ Builds with CMake for Maximum Efficiency and Scalability.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berner, Dominik.

Contributor:

Gilor, Mustafa Kemal.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

CMake (Computer program).

Computer software--Development.

Computer software.

C++ (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, Limited, 2024.

Summary:

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 This book focuses on real-world applications and techniques to leverage CMake, avoiding outdated hacks and overwhelming documentation.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.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Dedications

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1

The Basics

Chapter 1: Kickstarting CMake

Technical requirements

CMake in a nutshell

Installing CMake

Building CMake from source

Building your first project

A minimal CMakeLists.txt file

Understanding the CMake build process

Source folders and build folders

Single-configuration and multi-configuration generators

Writing CMake files

The CMake language

a 10,000-foot overview

Different toolchains and build types

Build types

Maintaining good build configurations with presets

Summary

Further reading

Questions

Answers

Chapter 2: Accessing CMake in the Best Ways

Using CMake via a command-line interface

Learning the basics of the CMake CLI

Advanced configuration using CMake-GUI and ccmake

Learning how to use ccmake (CMake curses GUI)

Using CMake via cmake-gui

Tweaking environment variables

Evaluating regular expressions with CMake

Using CMake in Visual Studio, VSCode, and Qt Creator

Visual Studio

Visual Studio Code

Qt Creator

Summary

Questions

Chapter 3: Creating a CMake Project

Setting up a project

Working with nested projects

Creating a "hello world" executable

Creating a simple library

Library aliases

Naming libraries

Symbol visibility in shared libraries

Interface or header-only libraries

Bringing it together

using your libraries

Setting compiler and linker options

Part 2

Practical CMake

Getting Your Hands Dirty with CMake

Chapter 4: Packaging, Deploying, and Installing a CMake Project

Technical requirements

Making CMake targets installable

The install() command

Supplying configuration information for others using your project

Entering the CMake package world

Config-file packages

Creating an installable package with CPack

Creating standalone installers for Windows

Chapter 5: Integrating Third-Party Libraries and Dependency Management

Finding files, programs, and paths with CMake

Finding files and paths

Finding programs

Finding libraries

Using third-party libraries in your CMake project

Writing your own find module

Using package managers with CMake

Using Conan to get dependencies

Using vcpkg for dependency management

Getting the dependencies as source code

Downloading dependencies as the source using pure CMake

Chapter 6: Automatically Generating Documentation

Generating documentation from your code

Understanding what Doxygen is

Using Doxygen with CMake

Embedding custom UML diagrams into documentation

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Packaging and distributing documentation with CPack

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9781835880647

1835880649

OCLC:

1453194522