Applied CMake - Develop a working understanding in a multi-project setting

GENERAL

The meeting will start at 7:30 PM with a tour of the facility, followed by pizza, and then the presentation + discussion. Donations are welcome.

TOPIC

# overview

• why not make?
• why cmake?

# language basics

• writing to stdout
• "types"
• variables
• environmental variables
• control
• loops
• functions
• macros

# standalone project

• filesystem organization
• CMakeLists.txt
• acquiring build dependancies
  -- find_package
  -- write your own "FindMyLib.cmake"
• defining build targets
• running custom commands
• template configuration files
• "generating" the build system
• compiling your project

# multi project

• natural extension of standalone project
• exposing library and includes provided by sub-project

# stretch goals

• defining install actions
• CPack packaging
• trade offs between meta packaging and native packaging (Ubuntu/Debian) centric

DIRECTIONS

The entrance to the maker space is located at the rear of the Amherst middle school in the upper right hand corner]. *** When you enter the parking lot, [bear right] and follow it around the corner [all the way to the end] ***. When you see a glowing LCD by the door, that's the entrance.

The meeting will be held in the home economics room where projectors are available and we can have grub. This is a pack in pack out affair so please refrain from using any consumables in this area unless they are explicitly provided for by our group.