Project Template

A project template for building shared libraries and binaries with cmake. It also installs headers and the proper cmake files so that you can use find_package(this_project) in subsequent cmake builds.

Getting started

Here we install to your home directory (instead of /usr/local):

git clone https://github.com/whit2333/project_template.git
mkdir project_build
cd project_build
cmake ../project_template/. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME
make && make install

export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH                         # if it is not included already
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH   # if it is not included already

Make sure the last two lines are in your bashrc if not a standard location.

Comments

This template is not meant to be the best example and it is probably not using the most current features of cmake. So please don't use it as a sole source for learning cmake because cmake has wonderful documentation.

It is meant to provide a quick starting point.

Please feel free to send questions or comments to Whitney Armstrong ([email protected]). Also pull requests are greatly appreciated!

Todo

1. Add renaming script
2. Clean up cmake files
3. Document features/convention