Name: Applied CMake - Develop a working understanding in a multi-project setting
Start: 2018-03-14T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2018-03-14T21:30:00-04:00
Location: Amherst Maker Space

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.

Peter Petrakis

Southern NH C++ Group

Technology

Software Development

Southern NH C++ Group

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

Southern NH C++ Group

Details

Members are also interested in