Modern CMake for C++

Chapter 12: Creating Your Professional Project

We gathered all the required knowledge to build professional projects; we learned about structuring, building, dependency management, testing, analyzing, installing, and packaging. It's time to put these acquired skills into practice by creating a coherent, professional project.

The important thing to understand is that even trivial programs will benefit from automated quality checks and a streamlined end-to-end process that turns raw code into a fully fledged solution. It's true that this is often a considerable investment, as many steps need to be taken in order to prepare everything right – even more so if we're trying to add these mechanisms to already existing code bases (usually, they're ...