Technical requirements
You can find the code files that are present in this chapter on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Modern-CMake-for-Cpp-2E/tree/main/examples/ch10.
The following toolchain utilities are required to try out the examples in this chapter:
- CMake 3.26 or newer (3.28 recommended)
- Any of the supported generators:
- Ninja 1.11 and newer (Ninja and Ninja Multi-Config)
- Visual Studio 17 2022 and newer
- Any of the supported compilers:
- MSVC toolset 14.34 and newer
- Clang 16 and newer
- GCC 14 (for the in-development branch, after 2023-09-20) and newer
If you’re familiar with Docker, you can use a fully tooled image introduced in the Installing CMake on different platforms section from Chapter 1, First Steps with CMake.
To build the examples provided in this chapter, use the following command:
cmake -B <build tree> -S <source tree...
