This CMake Example

This is simple CMake Example.

It doesn't contain any wise C++ code, it shows how to use CMake, in particular:

• create Static library (StaticLib.lib)
• create Dynamic library (DynamicLib.dll)
• provide demo application which use both libraries (Demo.exe)
• Install feature, which install all 3 components (Demo.exe, StaticLib.lib, DynamicLib.dll and headers) on machine where CMake Install is executed (CMake Install)
• Installation Package (single file (.exe, .7z, .zip etc.)) that contain above components, so program could be distributed and installed on other machines (CPack)

Prerequisites:

• CMake https://cmake.org/download/
• NSIS Installer http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Download
• Compiler e.g. Visual Studio 2017 Community https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/

To run this example:

• download repository on your hard-disk
• in the downloaded folder, in command line run cmake -H. -Bbuild. This will create build directory and solution (*.sln) in it. Then run cmake --build build --config Release in windows command line to compile.
• Alternatively you can open generated *.sln in Visual Studio - then you should see something like that:

• the other option is just open CMakeLists.txt directly in Visual Studio 2017 (Menu -> File -> Open -> CMake...)

To Do:

• Generating export macro automatically by CMake
• Debugging StaticLib.lib and DynamicLib.dll through running Demo.exe
• Source Package (to distribute sources)
• GoogleTests integration (to test StaticLib and DynamicLib code)
• Building-in version number to StaticLib.lib and DynamicLib.dll (from CMake)