CMake Cookbook

Preface

Computer software is present in almost every aspect of our daily lives: it triggers our alarm clocks, fuels our communication, banking, weather forecasts, bus schedules, calendars, meetings, travel, photo albums, television, music streaming, social media, dinner and movie reservations, from dawn till dusk.

The software that surrounds us contains many layers: apps are built on top of frameworks, frameworks on top of libraries, libraries use smaller libraries and executables, all the way down to smaller and smaller software components. Libraries and executables in turn need to be built from source code. Often we only see the outermost layer, but all these layers need to be carefully organized and built. This book is about how to build ...