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Modern CMake for C++

You're reading from  Modern CMake for C++

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801070058
Pages 460 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Rafał Świdziński Rafał Świdziński
Profile icon Rafał Świdziński

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Introducing CMake
2. Chapter 1: First Steps with CMake 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

Understanding control structures in CMake

The CMake Language wouldn't be complete without control structures! Like everything else, they are provided in the form of a command, and they come in three categories: conditional blocks, loops, and command definitions. Control structures are executed in scripts and during buildsystem generation for projects.

Conditional blocks

The only conditional block supported in CMake is the humble if() command. All conditional blocks have to be closed with an endif() command, and they may have any number of elseif() commands and one optional else() command in this order:

if(<condition>)
  <commands>
elseif(<condition>) # optional block, can be repeated
  <commands>
else()              # optional block
  <commands>
endif()

As in many other imperative languages, the if()-endif() block controls which sets of...

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