In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Using platform-independent file operations
- Running a custom command at configure time
- Running a custom command at build time: I. Using add_custom_command
- Running a custom command at build time: II. Using add_custom_target
- Running custom commands for specific targets at build time
- Probing compilation and linking
- Probing compiler flags
- Probing execution
- Fine-tuning configuration and compilation with generator expressions
