cmake-init VS cxx-static-shared-example

https://github.com/friendlyanon/cmake-init This is how you do CMake properly. If you deviate from its install rules you are highly likely to do something wrong.

CMake itself is as declarative as a build systems need to be. For anything nontrivial, these "declarative" solutions all fall apart. Just use https://github.com/friendlyanon/cmake-init, learn CMake and you won't have any issues.

If you want something with a (mostly) Just Works experience then just use https://github.com/friendlyanon/cmake-init

For CMake basics check out the official "Getting started" tutorial: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/guide/tutorial/index.html, as well as Introduction to Modern CMake. You can also get inspired by the CMake project generator cmake-init

You can just use https://github.com/friendlyanon/cmake-init to get a CMake + Conan C project ready to go with a short little command: cmake-init --c -e -p conan coolio

Anyone can create a library using cmake-init. This example goes into a little more detail and while it's for C++, the very same things apply sans a single target property on the library.

Thanks, I noticed a project friendlyanon/cxx-static-shared-example that have feature I didn't used.

https://github.com/friendlyanon/cxx-static-shared-example explains how to do libraries correctly, https://github.com/friendlyanon/cmake-init gives you a template that's ready to go. If something is not clear, ask away.

Here is an example going deeper into how to create a shared library using CMake: https://github.com/friendlyanon/cxx-static-shared-example You'd have to do these regardless of CMake, this just shows how to do it with it.

This example is more focused on explaining on the what and why.

Or if you are also packaging .deb then you're going to need a toolchain anyway, you can put these variables there as well.

To learn how to write a CML that is ideally written to be easy for both consumers building the library, developers developing the library and consumers vendoring the library via add_subdirectory (which will be a very very important thing to do in the near future), please check out this educational example repository https://github.com/friendlyanon/cxx-static-shared-example

This repo will show you how to make your project CML for an easy to (re)use library that supports packaging.

CMake's what you want. You need to know how separation of concerns applies when it comes the lists files. Resources in general suck, the CMake docs are not really discoverable, but are very good otherwise. You can get a handle of how things are supposed to be put together here.

cxx-static-shared-example - 50 lines for requirements + however many for sources + 60 for install rules: now this is a library that builds some artifacts. Still extremely simple and straightforward.