Viacheslav H. r4nx

Effective Modern CMake

Getting Started

For a brief user-level introduction to CMake, watch C++ Weekly, Episode 78, Intro to CMake by Jason Turner. LLVM’s CMake Primer provides a good high-level introduction to the CMake syntax. Go read it now.

After that, watch Mathieu Ropert’s CppCon 2017 talk Using Modern CMake Patterns to Enforce a Good Modular Design (slides). It provides a thorough explanation of what modern CMake is and why it is so much better than “old school” CMake. The modular design ideas in this talk are based on the book [Large-Scale C++ Software Design](https://www.amazon.de/Large-Scale-Soft

	cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.0)
	project(MyProject)

	set(Sources
	...
	)

	set(Headers
	...
	)

	# -- coding: utf-8 --
	"""Example Google style docstrings.

	This module demonstrates documentation as specified by the `Google Python
	Style Guide`_. Docstrings may extend over multiple lines. Sections are created
	with a section header and a colon followed by a block of indented text.

	Example:
	Examples can be given using either the ``Example`` or ``Examples``
	sections. Sections support any reStructuredText formatting, including

	/*
	* This work (Modern Encryption of a String C#, by James Tuley),
	* identified by James Tuley, is free of known copyright restrictions.
	* https://gist.github.com/4336842
	* http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
	*/

	using System;
	using System.IO;
	using System.Text;

	/*
	* C11 <threads.h> emulation library
	*
	* (C) Copyright yohhoy 2012.
	* Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
	* (See copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
	*/
	#ifndef EMULATED_THREADS_H_INCLUDED_
	#define EMULATED_THREADS_H_INCLUDED_