CMake Cookbook

How it works

This recipe has covered a lot of ground; let us make sense of it. CMake targets are a very useful abstraction for the operations that the build system will perform. Using the PRIVATE, PUBLIC, and INTERFACE keywords, we can set how targets within the same project will interact with each other. In practice, this lets us define how dependencies of target A will affect target B, which depends on A. The full power of this mechanism can be appreciated when other projects want to use a library as a dependency. If the proper CMake configuration files are made available by the library maintainers, then all dependencies can be easily resolved with very few CMake commands.

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