Master CMake for Cross-Platform C++ Project Building

What you'll learn

CMake Commands and Terminologies
Importance of Make and CMake
Importing and Exporting Packages
CMake's Scripting Mode
Configure Project Building using Cache Variables
Linking against External Libraries

Requirements

Basic Understanding of C or C++ programming language
For following along, a Linux based Computer is required

Description

Learning CMake was never so easy!

Welcome to the course Master CMake for Cross-Platform C++ Project Building, where you will learn the CMake tool from the beginning. After completing this course, you'll be able to

Build CMake based projects,

Export your project, and

Link your executable against any CMake/ Non-Cmake based library

Enroll Now and enjoy the 3.5-hours ride to learn the most powerful way of building the C++ projects.

This course is made after extensive research on Stackoverflow, Quora, Reddit, Youtube, and other Q&A websites to handpick the concepts which are difficult to understand for the beginners. The course starts with compiling a simple C++ code; and, over the modules, various functionalities are added as the complexity increases.

The broad outline of the course is as follows:

Section 1:

Problems associated with NOT using a build system

Difference between a build system (Make) and a meta-build system (CMake).

Section 2:

Installation of CMake

First executable using the CMake

Section 3:

Managing large projects using sub-directories

Section 4:

Variables, Lists, and Strings

Scripting Capabilities of CMake

Section 5:

Flow Control commands (If-else commands and the Loops)

Functions, Scopes, Macros, Modules, and Listfiles.

Section 6:

Configuring a project using Cache Variables

Concept of Libraries

Using Ninja Build System with CMake

Section 7:

Installation a package that is developed by someone else

Export our package so that someone else can use it

Section 8:(Read through Section)

Miscellaneous small concepts, FAQs and tips

Section 9:

Problems while installing and using External Libraries

Using External Libraries developed using both CMake and Non-CMake based build systems

Who this course is for:

Beginners, interested in learning the build process of C or C++ projects
Anyone, who wants to understand the CMakeLists files written by the community