- CMake support in Visual Studio: https://aka.ms/cmake
- Visual C++ for Linux Development with CMake: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2017/08/25/visual-c-for-linux-development-with-cmake/
- Official documentation for Visual Studio: https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/features/ide/
Table of Contents for
CMake Cookbook
CMake Cookbook
Published by
Packt Publishing, 2018
- CMake Cookbook
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- CMake Cookbook
- Packt Upsell
- Why subscribe?
- PacktPub.com
- Contributors
- About the authors
- About the reviewers
- Packt is searching for authors like you
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Who this book is for
- What this book covers
- To get the most out of this book
- Download the example code files
- Download the color images
- Conventions used
- Additional reading resources
- Get in touch
- Reviews
- Setting up Your System
- Obtaining the code
- Docker image
- Installing prerequisite software
- Getting CMake
- Compilers
- Build-automation tools
- Python
- Additional software
- BLAS and LAPACK
- Message passing interface (MPI)
- The Eigen linear algebra template library
- The Boost libraries
- Cross-compilers
- ZeroMQ, pkg-config, UUID, and Doxygen
- Conda build and deployment tools
- Testing the recipes
- Reporting problems and suggesting improvements
- From a Simple Executable to Libraries
- Introduction
- Compiling a single source file into an executable
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Switching generators
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- See also
- Building and linking static and shared libraries
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Controlling compilation with conditionals
- How to do it
- How it works
- Presenting options to the user
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Specifying the compiler
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Switching the build type
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Controlling compiler flags
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Setting the standard for the language
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Using control flow constructs
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Detecting the Environment
- Introduction
- Discovering the operating system
- How to do it
- How it works
- Dealing with platform-dependent source code
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Dealing with compiler-dependent source code
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Discovering the host processor architecture
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Discovering the host processor instruction set
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Enabling vectorization for the Eigen library
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Detecting External Libraries and Programs
- Introduction
- Detecting the Python interpreter
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Detecting the Python library
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- See also
- Detecting Python modules and packages
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Detecting the BLAS and LAPACK math libraries
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Detecting the OpenMP parallel environment
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Detecting the MPI parallel environment
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Detecting the Eigen library
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Detecting the Boost libraries
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Detecting external libraries: I. Using pkg-config
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Detecting external libraries: II. Writing a find-module
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Creating and Running Tests
- Introduction
- Creating a simple unit test
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Defining a unit test using the Catch2 library
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- See also
- Defining a unit test and linking against Google Test
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- See also
- Defining a unit test and linking against Boost test
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Using dynamic analysis to detect memory defects
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- See also
- Testing expected failures
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Using timeouts for long tests
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Running tests in parallel
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Running a subset of tests
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Using test fixtures
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Configure-time and Build-time Operations
- Introduction
- Using platform-independent file operations
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Running a custom command at configure time
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Running a custom command at build time: I. Using add_custom_command
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Running a custom command at build time: II. Using add_custom_target
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Running custom commands for specific targets at build time
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Probing compilation and linking
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Probing compiler flags
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- See also
- Probing execution
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Fine-tuning configuration and compilation with generator expressions
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- See also
- Generating Source Code
- Introduction
- Generating sources at configure time
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Generating source code at configure time using Python
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Generating source code at build time using Python
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Recording the project version information for reproducibility
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Recording the project version from a file
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Recording the Git hash at configure time
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Recording the Git hash at build time
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Structuring Projects
- Introduction
- Code reuse with functions and macros
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Splitting CMake sources into modules
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Writing a function to test and set compiler flags
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Defining a function or macro with named arguments
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Redefining functions and macros
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Deprecating functions, macros, and variables
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Limiting scope with add_subdirectory
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- See also
- Avoiding global variables using target_sources
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Organizing Fortran projects
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- The Superbuild Pattern
- Introduction
- Using the superbuild pattern
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Managing dependencies with a superbuild: I. The Boost libraries
- How to do it
- How it works
- Managing dependencies with a superbuild: II. The FFTW library
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Managing dependencies with a superbuild: III. The Google Test framework
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- See also
- Managing your project as a superbuild
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Mixed-language Projects
- Introduction
- Building Fortran projects that use C/C++ libraries
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Building C/C++ projects that use Fortran libraries
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Building C++ and Python projects using Cython
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Building C++ and Python projects using Boost.Python
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Building C++ and Python projects using pybind11
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- See also
- Mixing C, C++, Fortran, and Python using Python CFFI
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- See also
- Writing an Installer
- Introduction
- Installing your project
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Installing to standard locations
- Target properties and RPATH handling
- Installation directives
- There is more
- Generating export headers
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Exporting your targets
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Installing a superbuild
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Packaging Projects
- Introduction
- Generating source and binary packages
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Source archives
- Binary archives
- Platform-native binary installers
- There is more
- Distributing a C++/Python project built with CMake/pybind11 via PyPI
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Distributing a C/Fortran/Python project build with CMake/CFFI via PyPI
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Distributing a simple project as Conda package
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Distributing a project with dependencies as Conda package
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Building Documentation
- Introduction
- Building documentation using Doxygen
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Building documentation using Sphinx
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Combining Doxygen and Sphinx
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- Alternative Generators and Cross-compilation
- Introduction
- Building a CMake project using Visual Studio 2017
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- See also
- Cross-compiling a hello world example
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- See also
- Cross-compiling a Windows binary with OpenMP parallelization
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- Testing Dashboards
- Introduction
- Setting up a CDash dashboard
- Deploying tests to the CDash dashboard
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- See also
- Reporting test coverage to the CDash dashboard
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- See also
- Using the AddressSanitizer and reporting memory defects to CDash
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- See also
- Using the ThreadSanitizer and reporting data races to CDash
- Getting ready
- How to do it
- How it works
- There is more
- See also
- Porting a Project to CMake
- Where to start
- Reproducing the porting example
- Creating a top-level CMakeLists.txt
- How to allow both conventional configuration and configuration with CMake at the same time
- Capturing a record of what the traditional build does
- Debugging the migration
- Implementing options
- Start with the executable and very few targets, later localize scope
- Generating files and writing platform checks
- How to structure files
- Configuring preprocessor definitions based on the system environment
- Configuring files with paths and compiler flags
- Executing shell scripts at configure time
- Detecting required dependencies and linking
- Reproducing compiler flags
- Defining compiler flags
- Scope of compiler flags
- Porting tests
- Getting started
- Implementing a multi-step test
- Recommendation for tests
- Porting install targets
- Further steps
- Summary and common pitfalls when converting projects to CMake
- Summary of code changes
- Common pitfalls
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