CMake Cookbook

How to do it

Now that we have the sources in place, our goal will be to configure the project and experiment with compiler flags:

1. We set the minimum required version of CMake:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5 FATAL_ERROR)

2. We declare the name of the project and the language:

project(recipe-08 LANGUAGES CXX)

3. Then, we print the current set of compiler flags. CMake will use these for all C++ targets:

message("C++ compiler flags: ${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS}")

4. We prepare a list of flags for our targets. Some of these will not be available on Windows and we make sure to account for that case:

list(APPEND flags "-fPIC" "-Wall")if(NOT WIN32)  list(APPEND flags "-Wextra" "-Wpedantic")endif()

5. We add a new target, the geometry library and list its source ...