tomlplusplus VS cmkr

Unless you want to make your own config file parser as an exercise (which is a good idea) I'd recommend using toml++.

It's a public repo - this one: https://github.com/marzer/tomlplusplus but thank you

For a live demo, see the toml++ homepage: https://marzer.github.io/tomlplusplus/

Added bonus, tomlplusplus is a solid C++ implementation, actively updated, and easy to drop into a project (header only, CMake, vcpkg, Conan, etc.). Very easy to use for what I've needed.

Key links: - Homepage: https://marzer.github.io/tomlplusplus/ - Repository: https://github.com/marzer/tomlplusplus - "What is TOML?": https://toml.io/

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.23) project(testProj) set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 23) set(FETCHCONTENT_BASE_DIR ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/${CMAKE_PROJECT_NAME}/libs CACHE PATH "Missing description." FORCE) include(FetchContent) FetchContent_Declare( tomlplusplus GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/marzer/tomlplusplus.git GIT_TAG v3.1.0 ) FetchContent_MakeAvailable(tomlplusplus) add_executable(testProj testProj/src/main.cpp) target_link_libraries(testProj tomlplusplus)

I use them in toml++ to store the path of the source document for all the data nodes parsed from that document. Storing it as a separate std::string allocation for every single object would have been very wasteful, and the alternative would have been to make an overall document class that owned everything, which I didn't want to do, so shared_ptr was a good compromise.

Key links: - Homepage: https://marzer.github.io/tomlplusplus/ - Repository: https://github.com/marzer/tomlplusplus - "What is TOML?": https://toml.io/

toml++ was both my first 'public'/open-source project, and my first ever attempt at a parser. There's a few things I'd do differently now if I were to write it from scratch, but I've learned a lot along the way (particularly about making things build 'clean' on multiple platforms).

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.