CMake Cookbook

How to do it

In our CMakeLists.txt, we first have to collect the configuration options, and can then substitute their values for the corresponding placeholders in print_info.c.in; we compile both the Fortran and C sources into one executable:

1. We create a mixed Fortran-C project, as follows:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.10 FATAL_ERROR)  project(recipe-01 LANGUAGES Fortran C)

2. We obtain the username for the user configuring the project by using execute_process:

execute_process(  COMMAND    whoami  TIMEOUT    1  OUTPUT_VARIABLE    _user_name  OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE  )

3. Using the cmake_host_system_information() function (which we already encountered in Chapter 2, Detecting the Environment, Recipe 5, Discovering the host processor instruction ...