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Modern CMake for C++
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Modern CMake for C++

by Rafał Świdziński
February 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
460 pages
9h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 4: Working with Targets

The most basic target we can build in CMake is a single binary executable file that encompasses an entire application. It can be made out of a single piece of source code, such as the classic helloworld.cpp. Or it can be something complex – built with hundreds or even tens of thousands of files. This is what many beginner projects look like – create a binary with one source file, add another, and, before you know it, everything is linked to a single binary without any structure whatsoever.

As software developers, we deliberately draw boundaries and designate components to group one or more units of translation (.cpp files). We do it for multiple reasons: to increase code readability, manage coupling and connascence, ...

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