CMake-VSCode-Tutorial VS cmkr

For anyone interested, here is a link to my own template and a short tutorial explaining how to get up and running with CMake and VS Code that I recently made. Constructive criticism is welcome as I don't usually make tutorials. Hope it's helpful!

Been using https://cmkr.build/ for a while now, its great and also declarative.

I would like to counter with a project I’ve been working on: https://cmkr.build. Unfortunately writing good CMake is extremely repetitive and there is definitely room for a generator that has sane defaults.

You are trying to use it the wrong way it seems, the point of CMakeLists.txt is that you only maintain that and nothing else. If you have changes in there then it will re-generate the project for you when it starts building. Adding files via IDE is not supported and is not really the point, there used to be a time where I primarily worked with VS solutions but the more I dove into the open source space the more it became clear that its the worst way of doing it. You just have to get used to a different workflow, the benefit is that your project can be in theory now compiled on all sorts of systems and not just with VS. If CMake is too much to handle perhaps give https://cmkr.build/ a try, it hides a lot of the CMake madness behind its toml specification, been using it for a while now, its great.

https://cmkr.build/ its pretty straight forward and been using it for some time now, can only highly recommend it.

Currently working on https://github.com/build-cpp/cmkr

I started working on https://github.com/build-cpp/cmkr to remedy this, but other similar solutions exist.

I invite you to take a look at https://github.com/build-cpp/cmkr, it makes this even easier ^

I’ve been working on cmkr, a modern build system based on CMake and TOML.

Definitely! I would recommend using cmake because it’s easy to generate a compile_commands.json. I’ve been working on https://build-cpp.github.io/cmkr to make the transition as smooth as possible.