Master CMake for Cross-Platform C++ Project Building

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Course overview

Provider
Udemy
Course type
Paid course
Level
Beginner
Duration
4 hours
Lessons
46 lessons
Certificate
Available on completion
Course author
Milan Yadav
  • 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

Description

Learn the most powerful and recommended way of building the C++ projects

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


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

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