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CMake Cookbook
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CMake Cookbook

by Radovan Bast, Roberto Di Remigio
September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
606 pages
14h 32m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to do it

Let us first go through the root CMakeLists.txt file:

  1. We start, as usual, by requiring a minimum CMake version and defining a C++11 project. Note that we have set a version for our project with the VERSION keyword to the project command:
# CMake 3.6 needed for IMPORTED_TARGET option# to pkg_search_modulecmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.6 FATAL_ERROR)
project(recipe-01  LANGUAGES CXX  VERSION 1.0.0  )# <<< General set up >>>set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 11)set(CMAKE_CXX_EXTENSIONS OFF)set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED ON)
  1. The user can define the installation prefix by means of the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX variable. CMake will set a sensible default for this variable: /usr/local on Unix and C:\Program Files on Windows, respectively. We print ...
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ISBN: 9781788470711