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Minimal CMake
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Minimal CMake

by Tom Hulton-Harrop
January 2025
Intermediate to advanced
266 pages
7h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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Part 3: Wrapping Up

Now that we have a fully functioning application, we want some guarantees it’ll keep working, which is where testing comes in. We’ll show how to use the accompanying CMake tool, CTest, to provide support for many kinds of tests for your libraries and applications. After creating an application, the most critical requirement is the ability to share it with others (and ensure it doesn’t just work on your machine). This is where packaging comes in; we’ll show how to use another CMake adjacent tool called CPack to make distributable packages for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Finally, we’ll look at the various tools available today that integrate seamlessly with CMake and make working with it even easier. By the end of the book, ...

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ISBN: 9781835087312