CMake from Zero to Hero

CMake from Zero to Hero, available at $59.99, has an average rating of 4.15, with 58 lectures, 7 quizzes, based on 118 reviews, and has 640 subscribers.

You will learn about Understand the basics of CMake Learn how to organize your projects structure, install and export it Use 3rd party libraries Testing features of CMake (CTest) This course is ideal for individuals who are C/C++ developers/students interested in CMake It is particularly useful for C/C++ developers/students interested in CMake.

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Summary

Title: CMake from Zero to Hero

Price: $59.99

Average Rating: 4.15

Number of Lectures: 58

Number of Quizzes: 7

Number of Published Lectures: 58

Number of Curriculum Items: 65

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 58

Original Price: $89.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Understand the basics of CMake

Learn how to organize your projects structure, install and export it

Use 3rd party libraries

Testing features of CMake (CTest)

Who Should Attend

C/C++ developers/students interested in CMake

Target Audiences

C/C++ developers/students interested in CMake

This course is for C++ developers and computer science students and it helps with the frustration of learning CMake by providing a structured way of doing it, using small “Hello World”-like examples and some real world examples as well.

If you’re like me, you were frustrated because there is no structured tutorial that goes beyond the absolute basics. Maybe you even hated CMake, like a lot of programmers. This will be taken care of, because this is a structured learning path, and we will cover some of the most frequently used features of CMake.

No prior experience with CMake is needed, but basic C++ is needed. Just the basics, nothing fancy.

I’ve been a professional software developer for more than 10 years now. I’ve also been a trainer in one of my jobs. I noticed that it’s better to take a hands-on approach and I encourage you to do the same with this course. Play around with the examples. Break them. See what happens.

What you’ll get out of this:

CMake is cross-platform

It’s in a lot of open-source projects, (maybe even your work projects) which you’ll understand better

Simple, easy to follow examples, some of them inspired by real projects

Write your own CMake projects:

Build

Export

Use 3rd party libraries

Test

Mostly Linuxexamples, some Windowsones

Windows setup in CLion, Visual Studio, the command line + cmake-gui

Here’s a rough outline of the course, but please look at the curriculum on this page:

CMake basics

Variables

Control Flow

Structuring your projects

Export

External dependencies

Testing with CTest

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: What to Watch Next

Lecture 3: Installing on Ubuntu

Lecture 4: Using CMake in Windows: Visual Studio and CLion

Lecture 5: Using CMake in Windows from the Command Line

Chapter 2: Basics

Lecture 1: A minimal example – part 1

Lecture 2: Minimal example – discussion

Lecture 3: Static Versus Shared Libraries

Lecture 4: Basic Library Example

Lecture 5: Recap

Chapter 3: CMake Variables

Lecture 1: Intro

Lecture 2: Basic Variables Example

Lecture 3: Cache Variables

Lecture 4: Options and cmake-gui

Lecture 5: CMake-gui for Windows

Lecture 6: Strings

Lecture 7: Lists

Lecture 8: Computing numeric values

Lecture 9: Recap

Chapter 4: Control flow

Lecture 1: Conditionals

Lecture 2: Conditionals example

Lecture 3: Short practical example

Lecture 4: Loops

Lecture 5: Loops example

Lecture 6: Recap

Chapter 5: Organizing the project structure

Lecture 1: Intro

Lecture 2: Starting project

Lecture 3: Subfolders (add_subdirectory)

Lecture 4: Variable scope

Lecture 5: Proper way of including headers (target_include_directories)

Lecture 6: Target properties and propagation

Lecture 7: Functions

Lecture 8: Functions versus macros

Lecture 9: Optional arguments

Lecture 10: Keyword arguments – part 1

Lecture 11: Keyword arguments – part 2

Lecture 12: How did you find this example?

Lecture 13: Including other cmake files

Lecture 14: Recap

Chapter 6: Exporting your project

Lecture 1: Exporting and Installing

Lecture 2: Using the install command

Lecture 3: Installing exports and generating config files

Lecture 4: Importing your project with find_package()

Lecture 5: Library namespaces, CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH and other details

Lecture 6: Recap

Chapter 7: External dependencies

Lecture 1: Intro

Lecture 2: About Google Test

Lecture 3: FetchContent

Lecture 4: PkgConfig | Projects that are not CMake projects

Lecture 5: Manually finding libs and include paths

Lecture 6: Typo in the next lecture

Lecture 7: Find modules

Lecture 8: Case study: FindThreads

Lecture 9: Recap

Chapter 8: Testing your project with CTest

Lecture 1: Intro

Lecture 2: Simple example with CTest

Lecture 3: Test properties

Lecture 4: Recap

Instructors

Serban Stoenescu
Software Development Engineer

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2 stars: 6 votes

3 stars: 17 votes

4 stars: 49 votes

5 stars: 44 votes

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