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Modern CMake for C++

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801070058
Pages 460 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Rafał Świdziński Rafał Świdziński
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Rafał Świdziński works as a staff engineer at Google. With over 10 years of professional experience as a full stack developer, he has been able to experiment with a vast multitude of programming languages and technologies. During this time, he has been building software under his own company and for corporations including Cisco Meraki, Amazon, and Ericsson. Originally from Łódź, Poland, he now lives in London, UK, from where he runs a YouTube channel, "Smok," discussing topics related to software development. He tackles technical problems, including real-life and work-related challenges encountered by many people in the field. Throughout his work, he explains the technical concepts in detail and demystifies the art and science behind the role of software engineer. His primary focus is on high-quality code and the craftsmanship of programming.
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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

Chapter 11: Installing and Packaging

Our project has been built, tested, and documented. Now, it's finally time to release it to our users. This chapter is mainly about the two last steps we'll need to take to do that: installation and packaging. These are advanced techniques that build on top of everything we've learned so far: managing targets and their dependencies, transient usage requirements, generator expressions, and much more.

Installation allows our project to be discoverable and accessible system-wide. In this chapter, we will cover how to export targets so that another project can use them without installation, as well as how to install our projects so that they can easily be used by any program on the system. In particular, we'll learn how to configure our project so that it can automatically put different artifact types in the correct directory. To handle more advanced scenarios, we'll introduce low-level commands for installing files and...

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Profile icon Rafał Świdziński
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Rafał Świdziński works as a staff engineer at Google. With over 10 years of professional experience as a full stack developer, he has been able to experiment with a vast multitude of programming languages and technologies. During this time, he has been building software under his own company and for corporations including Cisco Meraki, Amazon, and Ericsson. Originally from Łódź, Poland, he now lives in London, UK, from where he runs a YouTube channel, "Smok," discussing topics related to software development. He tackles technical problems, including real-life and work-related challenges encountered by many people in the field. Throughout his work, he explains the technical concepts in detail and demystifies the art and science behind the role of software engineer. His primary focus is on high-quality code and the craftsmanship of programming.
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