Cmake Bespoke

1. What CMake really is? - it is build system or just a wrapper?
 

2. First CMake project - two commands, but what they do will blow your mind.
 

3. CMake variables - let's do this in different way than other programming languages.
 

4. CMake targets - base of modern CMake
 

5. Modern CMake project structure
 

6. Conditions in CMake - do you think that it is simple?
 

7. Generator expressions - hard syntax to read, but sometimes we need them.
 

8. Compiler definitions 
 

9. CMake cache - easy way of configuring your build
 

10. Environment variables.
 

11. Ways of providing sources to targets - pros and cons of many approaches
 

12. Loops
 

13. Functions & Macros - which one should be used mostly?
 

14. Extra function parameters - there is a time to praise the creators of CMake
 

15. Setting compiler flags - many ways to do that, which should we choose?
 

16. Custom targets and commands - how to avoid external scripting
 

17. Executing processes from CMake
 

18. Configuring files - powerful tool of generating files from patterns.
 

19. CMake installing - how to place artifacts in right place in right order
 

20. Finding and linking to external libraries - very popular, but sometimes tricky
 

21. Creating own find package mechanism - when CMake creators and third party provider failed
 

22. Exporting libraries - prepare your library or framework to be used in other projects
 

23. Cross compilation introduction
 

24. Dealing with dependencies - how to prevent your build system becoming a nightmare