CMake Language

If you are thinking about developing for CMakePP odds are you already are familiar with the basics of the CMake language. What you may not be so familiar with are the nuances of the CMake language (and there are many). The chapters in this part are designed to familiarize you with these nuances and introduce the CMake best-practices to avoid them.

• Control Flow Statements
  • “if” Statements
  • Foreach Statements
• Writing Your Own CMake Functions
  • Function vs. Macro
  • Returning Values
  • Namespace Collisions
  • Variable Collisions
• Callbacks and Lambdas in CMake
  • Prerequisites
  • Dispatch
  • Initializer Function Pattern
  • Visitor Pattern
• Best CMake Practices
  • Unit Testing