CMake Part 1 – The Dark Arts

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  • Boost.Beast

    HTTP and WebSocket built on Boost.Asio in C++11

  • cmake -h. -Bbuild && cmake --build build

    to work about 90% of the time. Far more luck than I've had with autotools.

    > Its code is horrifying too, for example:

    1) I'm sure I could find some horriffic code in meson too if I went digging. 2) The alternative to this is you having to write something equivalent in your own code, meaning that in my code I don't need to do stuff like [0] in my code to detect features; my build system handles it for me. 3) CMake supports more platforms and targets than I've ever seen in my life, and likely supports more compilers than are necessary. that's a blessing and a curse, but it means that if I write simple program to run on some crufty microcontroller with a bastardised gcc toolchain from the 90s, it's fairly likely that cmake supports it out of the box. Code like that is the price to pay for that level of support.

    [0] https://github.com/boostorg/beast/blob/b7344b0d501f23f763a76...

  • CMake

    Mirror of CMake upstream repository

  • I ran

        git clone https://github.com/Kitware/CMake.git && cd cmake && cmake -H. -Bbuild && cmake --build build

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