An Introduction to Modern CMake

Somehow I'm never happy with CMake guides. The official book is ridiculously outdated among other things, the official documentation is complete and current but provides no guidance, and none of the blog-documentation about it gives a complete picture. Some of it is bad advice. This one doesn't talk about the dependency graph, something I consider very important in a build system. It is also missing a lot of other stuff. (Fair enough, it's provided for free.) I wrote the CMake…

This has the same kind of infuriating quality that most cmake documentation does. It explains in detail how to do obvious stuff but has nothing to say about what the execution model behind the syntax is. I mean, if you learn classic make, one of the very first things you learn is "this is a target; it's just a file; the stuff on the right are dependencies; the commands below will be run whenever the dependencies are newer than the…

Nice to see cliutils trending. Henry really understands CMake, so advice by him is always good to follow. I'm not a big fan of CMake, but after years of suffering, I mean, experience, I've learned how to use it relatively well. One feature I like is the "dashboard" model of ctest. It's somewhat painful to setup, but once you have it working, it makes your life building and testing your project much easier. Unfortunately, when I posted it nobody noticed…