[CMake] Beginners Guide to Cmake and Modern Cmake

[Andreas Naumann]

Dear space & and the rest of the cmake world :)

i just googled for "modern cmake" and came up with at least two 
interesting talks from cppcon and boostcon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsXLMQ6WgIk&feature=youtu.be&t=37m15s
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC9-iRN2b04
Their slides can be found at
https://github.com/CppCon/CppCon2017/blob/master/Tutorials/Using%20Modern%20CMake%20Patterns%20to%20Enforce%20a%20Good%20Modular%20Design/Using%20Modern%20CMake%20Patterns%20to%20Enforce%20a%20Good%20Modular%20Design%20-%20Mathieu%20Ropert%20-%20CppCon%202017.pdf
https://github.com/boostcon/cppnow_presentations_2017/blob/master/05-19-2017_friday/effective_cmake__daniel_pfeifer__cppnow_05-19-2017.pdf

I just slipped through them, but they look like the right way. Another 
nice summary is at 
https://gist.github.com/mbinna/c61dbb39bca0e4fb7d1f73b0d66a4fd1#file-effective_modern_cmake-md

Wish you a nice weekend,
Andreas


Am 27.07.2018 um 01:54 schrieb Space:
> Dear Cmake world,
>
> I am wanting to learn how to use Cmake correctly and I would like to
> implement Modern Cmake (the latest version and techniques).
>
> Currently I have a project that was intended for use on windows machine but
> I want to run/develop it on Mac and am also interested to make it overall
> cross platform. On Mac I'll use Visual Studio Code and Xcode (preferably
> VSC).
>
> Here is a link to the GitHub for the current project of interest:
> https://github.com/AcademyOfInteractiveEntertainment/aieBootstrap
>
> Dependencies are:
>      glfw
>      glm
>      imgui
>      stb
>      openGL (gl_core_4_4.c/h)
>
> I have visited the cmake.org site and looked at the tutorials, they teach
> old cmake 2.8 but shouldn't there be material that teaches the Modern way.
>
> I know about the documentation that has made an effort to show some of the
> modern practices but to a person, new to cmake, my brain just shuts down to
> the reference styled documents, and yes, but thats what the documentation
> is; a reference list.
>
> I then found the webinars, but much disappoint, they are dated back to March
> 2012 ( a great effort for its time but left me confused; not modern).
>
> We are now end of July 2018. It would be great to see a webinar completely
> refreshed, which is directed at the complete beginner and makes an effort to
> teach Modern Cmake in todays world. It would also be nice to understand how
> to bridge the gap between old 2.8 cmake and the latest cmake. For example:
> Making proper use of find_package etc...
>
> I hope this is an interesting topic to be reviewed,
>
> regards,
>
> Space
>
>
>
>
>
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