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Modern CMake for C++

You're reading from   Modern CMake for C++ Discover a better approach to building, testing, and packaging your software

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801070058
Length 460 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rafał Świdziński Rafał Świdziński
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introducing CMake
2. Chapter 1: First Steps with CMake FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: The CMake Language 4. Chapter 3: Setting Up Your First CMake Project 5. Section 2: Building With CMake
6. Chapter 4: Working with Targets 7. Chapter 5: Compiling C++ Sources with CMake 8. Chapter 6: Linking with CMake 9. Chapter 7: Managing Dependencies with CMake 10. Section 3: Automating With CMake
11. Chapter 8: Testing Frameworks 12. Chapter 9: Program Analysis Tools 13. Chapter 10: Generating Documentation 14. Chapter 11: Installing and Packaging 15. Chapter 12: Creating Your Professional Project 16. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: Miscellaneous Commands

Using ExternalProject and FetchContent modules

Online reference books on CMake will suggest ExternalProject and FetchContent modules to deal with the management of dependencies in more complex projects. That's actually good advice, but it's often given without appropriate context. Suddenly, we're facing a lot of questions. What are these modules for? When to choose one over the other? How exactly do they work, and how do they interact with each other? Some answers are harder to find than others, and surprisingly, CMake's documentation doesn't provide a smooth introduction to the subject. Not to worry – we'll take care of it here.

ExternalProject

CMake 3.0.0 introduced a module called ExternalProject. As you can guess, its purpose was to add support for external projects available in online repositories. Over the years, the module was gradually extended for different needs, resulting in quite a complicated command – ExternalProject_Add...

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