CMake: An Introduction (2024-06-18)

Course Times

• 2024-06-18, 9:00

Github Repository

• https://github.com/jfasch/2024-06-18

See also

• CMake: A Dirty But Powerful Build Tool (Course description)

• CMake (Course material)

• Basics: Boilerplate, And Executables

• Libraries, And Dependencies

• Shared Libraries (Preview)

• Installation (“Deployment”)

• Structure - Subdirectories, Dependencies, and Include Paths

• Exercise: see https://github.com/jfasch/2024-06-18/tree/main/exercise

• C++, Debug/Release, CMake “Programming”, Rants

• Cross development

  • Cross Development

  • CMake: Cross Build

  • Sample CMake toolchain file here

• Targets, Properties, And More

• External Dependencies

  • Add MQTT logic to exercise project ⟶ need to know about mosquitto installation (include path, library)

  • Handwritten (simplistic) find module: FileMosquitto.cmake

  • Find mosquitto in toplevel CMakeLists.txt

    list(APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/CMake")
    find_package(Mosquitto)
    

  • Add dependency in base CMakeLists.txt

    target_link_libraries(base Mosquitto::Mosquitto)