Because life is weird enough to even care about understanding CMake
Basically all you have to do is clone this, move your source somewhere in here, then open CMakeLists.txt at the root of this project, change the project name (if you want) and add your subdirectory where your CMakeLists.txt is located. Then you open cmake/projectPreferences.cmake to configure file location, compiler flags and that's it.
Inside src/executable you'll find an sample project with a CMakeLists that usually would be the recommended way (in my opinion) on doing the thing.
For you? Probably (not). As you might (or not) know, there's a lot of CMake structures that can be done to achieve more or less the same result, this is my own take on doing my own setup for my own projects, just enough for all my future projects.
- Visual Studio 2010 (WinXP, CMake 3.13)
- Visual Studio 2022 (Win10, latest CMake version at the time of writing this)
- CodeBlocks (Linux Mint 21, latest CMake version offered by the maintainers)
Inside cmake/toolchains you'll find a few toolchains you can use with -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE when initializing your CMake project, mostly used for crosscompiling. Currently there are toolchains for crosscompiling on Windows using MinGW and other architectures on Linux, feel free to pull request yours into this repository, following this template:
#############################################################################
## Copyright (c) 1970, P7COMunications LLC #
## Author(s): John Doe <john@example.com> #
## Date: 01/Jan/1970 #
#############################################################################
## Purpose: Toolchain template #
#############################################################################
set(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME SYSTEM_NAME_HERE)
set(CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR TARGET_ARCHITECTURE_HERE)
set(CMAKE_AR "")
set(CMAKE_ASM_COMPILER "")
set(CMAKE_C_COMPILER "")
set(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER "")
set(CMAKE_LINKER "")
set(CMAKE_OBJCOPY "")
set(CMAKE_RANLIB "")
set(CMAKE_SIZE "")
set(CMAKE_STRIP "")
set(CMAKE_C_FLAGS "")
set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "")
set(CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS "")
set(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_PROGRAM NEVER)
set(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_LIBRARY ONLY)
set(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_INCLUDE ONLY)Be sure to fill appropriately your name/username, date of creation, copyright year and purpose/what your toolchain is doing. Failure of doing so may delay the merging process.
You're all set, go and use this project as you want. If you happen to actually use this on one of your projects, I'd love to know about it, send me an email or post an issue in this repository, I'll take an look and if it's good, I'll put you on the hall of fame at the bottom of this README.
You could be the first in here!