Cmake

Simplifying the C/C++ dependency graph (with CMake)

15 March 2019·457 words·3 mins

Code Cmake

Sometimes, you’ll come upon a set of libraries that just decide to include everything directly, always. This can help minimize and visualize those dependencies.

Using CMake to help build Catch2 tests

23 December 2018·653 words·4 mins

Code Cmake C/Cpp

Using CMake to automatically detect, or clone fresh, and even pre-compile Catch for you.

CMake script suite - Making CMake work for you

30 October 2018·1051 words·5 mins

Code Cmake

Built over some time now, is a fair sized suite of tools and utilities to improve the CMake compilation experience.

Integrating Sanitizer tools into CMake builds

1 February 2018·990 words·5 mins

Code Cmake C/Cpp

Previously we added tools for code coverage and static analysis via clang-tidy. Now comes the ability to perform better runtime testing through GCC and Clang’s sanitizer tools, and integrating them with CMake.

Adding C/C++ code coverage with CMake and GCC or Clang

15 January 2018·752 words·4 mins

Code Cmake C/Cpp

Code coverage gives the ability to determine which sections of code are used, and how much, helping to prevent issues from sections of code that aren’t run during tests and thus could potentially fail in production.

Integrating clang-tools with CMake

1 January 2018·1229 words·6 mins

Code Cmake

The clang tools, clang-format and clang-tidy can be immensly useful, both for software development on local machines and as passes in a CI pipeline. This is especially true when they are integrated into a CMake script, where new targets ‘format’ and ’tidy’ can be exist.