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Introduction to CMake

.author[Roberto Di Remigio]

.institution[UiT - The Arctic University of Norway]

.institution[Department of Chemistry - Virginia Tech]

.date[14 August 2019, Blacksburg]

.footnote[CC BY 4.0 licensed. Browse slides at http://tinyurl.com/cmake-tutorial-MolSSI]

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Why CMake?

• Build system generator (cmake)
• Cross-platform
• Language-agnostic
• Test orchestration (ctest)
• Packaging (cpack)
• Test reporting (cdash)

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De facto standard

.footnote[Data downloaded from https://trends.google.com on 2019-08-10.]

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What is CMake?

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Where to find more details

• The CMake online documentation https://cmake.org/cmake/documentation
• Craig Scott Professional CMake
• Radovan Bast and I CMake Cookbook
• The CMake Cookbook GitHub repo

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Hands-on exercises

Prerequisites:

• Working C, C++, and Fortran compilers
• The Make and Ninja build tools
• A fork of robertodr/cmake-tutorial

Exercises:

1. Build a source file into an executable (code).
2. Build library and executable for a project with dependencies (code).
3. Unit testing with Catch2 (code).
4. Mixed-language projects and testing (code).
5. More on unit testing with Catch2 (code).