Introduction to Conan package manager
In the previous article of this series, I have listed several problems that we as developers have to deal with while using dependencies to external code in our projects. These…
Problems with external dependencies in C++
Dependencies are usually the most problematic part of the build system (next to the toolchain setup) in programming projects. In C++ this is especially hard because there is no one…
How to cross-compile for embedded with CMake like a champ
The power of CMake lies in the fact, that it is both cross-platform in terms of build host and allows cross-compilation for different targets at the same time. In other…
How to join repositories in CMake
Sometimes there is a need in a project to use directly some other repository (local or external). This means, that we want to be able to incorporate parts (or all)…
Modern CMake is like inheritance
CMake has been created in 2000 by Bill Hoffman from Kitware. During the last 20 years, as of the time of this publication, it’s been constantly evolving by adding new features…
19 reasons why CMake is actually awesome
Topic of CMake is extremely controversial in the C/C++ community. People say that it is hard to properly set the include paths, that syntax is archaic or that managing dependencies…