The source code for the recipes in this book is available on GitHub, at https://github.com/dev-cafe/cmake-cookbook. The code is licensed under the standard open source MIT license: this is a permissive software license, and you can reuse and remix the code in whatever way you see fit, as long as the original copyright and license notice are included in any copies of the software/source. The full text of the license is available at https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
In order to test the recipes by yourself, you will need a working installation of Git, obtained as follows:
- All major GNU/Linux distributions offer Git prepackaged, via their package managers. If that is not your case, a binary distribution can be downloaded from the Git project website at https://git-scm.com.
- On macOS, it is possible to use Homebrew or MacPorts to install Git.
- On Windows, you can download the Git executable from the Git project website at https://git-scm.com.
Alternatively, you can access the examples with the GitHub desktop client at https://desktop.github.com.
Yet another alternative is to download and extract the ZIP file from https://github.com/dev-cafe/cmake-cookbook.
Once you have Git installed, you can clone the repository to your local machine, as follows:
$ git clone https://github.com/dev-cafe/cmake-cookbook.git
This will create a folder named cmake-cookbook. The book and the repository are organized in chapters and recipes. The numbering of chapters and the order of recipes in the repository reflect the order in the text. Each recipe is further organized into example folders. Some of the recipes have more than one example, usually when similar CMake concepts are illustrated in different programming languages.
The recipes are tested on GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows, using state-of-the-art continuous integration services. We will discuss the testing set up shortly.
We have tagged the precise versions that correspond to the examples printed in this book with the tag v1.0. For maximum overlap with the book text, you can fetch this particular version as follows:
$ git clone --single-branch -b v1.0 https://github.com/dev-cafe/cmake-cookbook.git
We expect to receive bug fixes and the GitHub repository to evolve. To get the latest updates, you may prefer to follow the master branch of the repository, instead.
