What do you get with eBook?

Instant access to your Digital eBook purchase

Download this book in EPUB and PDF formats

Access this title in our online reader with advanced features

DRM FREE - Read whenever, wherever and however you want

AI Assistant (beta) to help accelerate your learning

Key benefits

Get to grips with CMake and take your C++ development skills to enterprise standards

Use hands-on exercises and self-assessment questions to lock-in your learning

Understand how to build in an array of quality checks and tests for robust code

Description

Modern CMake for C++ isn't just another reference book, or a repackaging of the documentation, but a blueprint to bridging the gap between learning C++ and being able to use it in a professional setting. It's an end-to-end guide to the automation of complex tasks, including building, testing, and packaging software. This second edition is significantly rewritten, restructured and refreshed with latest additions to CMake, such as support of C++20 Modules. In this book, you'll not only learn how to use the CMake language in CMake projects but also discover how to make those projects maintainable, elegant, and clean. As you progress, you'll dive into the structure of source directories, building targets, and packages, all while learning how to compile and link executables and libraries. You'll also gain a deeper understanding of how those processes work and how to optimize builds in CMake for the best results. You'll discover how to use external dependencies in your project – third-party libraries, testing frameworks, program analysis tools, and documentation generators. Finally, you'll gain profi ciency in exporting, installing, and packaging for internal and external purposes. By the end of this book, you'll be able to use CMake confi dently at a professional level.

Who is this book for?

The book is for build engineers and software developers with knowledge of C/C++ programming who are looking to learn CMake to automate the process of building small and large software solutions. If you’re just getting started with CMake, a long-time GNU Make user, or simply looking to brush up on the latest best practices, this book is for you.

What you will learn

Understand best practices to build ++ code

Gain practical knowledge of the CMake language

Guarantee code quality with tests and static and dynamic analysis

Discover how to manage, discover, download, and link dependencies with CMake

Build solutions that can be reused and maintained in the long term

Understand how to optimize build artifacts and the build process

Program modern CMake and manage your build processes

Acquire expertise in complex subjects such as CMake presets

What do you get with eBook?

Instant access to your Digital eBook purchase

Download this book in EPUB and PDF formats

Access this title in our online reader with advanced features

DRM FREE - Read whenever, wherever and however you want

AI Assistant (beta) to help accelerate your learning

Frequently bought together

€37.99

€37.99

€41.99

Total € 117.97

Felix Bytow Jun 21, 2024

Disclaimer: I received a free review copy.But I liked it so much, I actually ordered a physical copy as well.I'm using CMake for many years already to build my C and C++ projects.Over the years a lot of things changed. A lot of things became easier with CMake,but CMake also became more powerful.So I was thrilled, when I saw this book. Reading through it, I found it to be a rather complete manualto everything CMake has to offer. There was a lot of information about functionality,that I had either only heard about, or didn't even know exists.I think the book handles both pretty well:As a beginner, reading it from the start, will give a good introduction of what CMake is, what it does, how it integrates with other tools and what best practices are.For experienced users it can act as a reference, whenever you find yourself in a situation, where you are unsure how to do something.

Amazon Verified review

Y. Arazi Sep 13, 2024

I recently read Modern CMake for C++, Second Edition and was thoroughly impressed. Despite considering myself highly technical and knowledgeable in CMake, I still learned a plethora of new information. The book covers a wide range of topics, from debugging a CMake project, understanding the grammar, targets, and package management like FetchContent, to using CMake in advanced IDEs.One of the standout aspects of this book is its guidance on properly setting up a project. It emphasizes good practices, what to focus on when building a project, the hierarchy, and various gotchas to avoid. The book even delves into the linking models of C and C++ and how to handle them correctly in CMake.This book is a must-read for every developer using CMake. By following the rules and best practices outlined, it will make your project healthier. Regardless of your experience level, you are bound to pick up new skills. The format and organization of this book are simply fabulous, making it highly recommended.

Amazon Verified review

Deniz Jun 05, 2024

Disclaimer: I got an early review copy for free. Nevertheless, my review is unbiased.This book gives a great introduction to CMake and an in-depth insight in how to use it with modern tools and modern C++.In the first few chapters it explains the core concepts of CMake, how to install it and and how to use it. It presents the most commonly used CMake commands but does not bother with introducing each and every one if it. (For those you can consult CMake's excellent online reference.)Those chapters help with using CMake not only from the command line but also from the most popular IDEs.The next few chapters introduce some more concepts of CMake that you will often encounter in CMake projects and which are often useful, even if sometimes a little quirky (as e.g. CMake's generator-expressions).The following chapters go even further and show how CMake interacts with compilers, linkers, test-frameworks etc. They even go so far to introduce and explain these in more detail. So you not only learn about CMake but also about your OS and other tools and libraries and general concepts of software-development.Testing, installing and packaging your build-results are also covered in-depth in the later chaptersOverall, this book enables the reader to quickly start using CMake together with other tools and to create high-quality software, that should be easy to build and maintain (assuming you do not write spaghetti code).

Amazon Verified review

Austin Bachurski Jun 03, 2024

Prior to going through this book, I had no idea that CMake is all but a programming language unto itself. This book goes over a ton of information with lots of examples on things like testing. How to use test frameworks with CMake. How to use analysis tools for both performance and safety using CMake. Generating documentation with CMake. I didn't even know CMake could do these things, but this book has an entire section for each of these topics. It's quite a lot to take in at once, but it's going to be a great reference to have on the shelf to come back to when I have questions. Highly recommended if you're finding CMake confusing.

Amazon Verified review

Allen Wyma May 29, 2024

I've been working with some projects that use CMake and I'm not able to understand how I can modify it. This book helped me to understand enough about CMake so I can use it and make the modifications I needed.

Amazon Verified review

Modern CMake for C++: Effortlessly build cutting-edge C++ code and deliver high-quality solutions , Second Edition

What do you get with eBook?

Key benefits

Description

Who is this book for?

What you will learn

Product Details

What do you get with eBook?

Product Details

Frequently bought together

Recommendations for you

Customer reviews

Filter reviews by

People who bought this also bought

About the author

FAQs

Modern CMake for C++: Effortlessly build cutting-edge C++ code and deliver high-quality solutions , Second Edition

What do you get with eBook?

Contact Details

Billing Address

Key benefits

Description

Who is this book for?

What you will learn

Product Details

What do you get with eBook?

Contact Details

Billing Address

Product Details

Packt Subscriptions

Frequently bought together

Recommendations for you

Customer reviews

Filter reviews by

People who bought this also bought

About the author

FAQs