Examples

Examples

This page contains repositories that are either example outputs of cmake-init itself, or examples of other functionality implemented for CMake projects.

If you have ideas for examples, please do let me know in the Discussions forum of this project.

cmake-init outputs

These repositories are outputs of cmake-init as of version 0.40.7:

• https://github.com/friendlyanon/cmake-init-executable
• https://github.com/friendlyanon/cmake-init-header-only
• https://github.com/friendlyanon/cmake-init-shared-static

Other examples

There are also example repositories showing how to integrate with package managers:

• https://github.com/friendlyanon/cmake-init-vcpkg-example
• https://github.com/friendlyanon/cmake-init-conan-example

Here is an additional example written in C that makes use of fuzz testing and a superbuild to connect the fuzz project with the library project:

• https://github.com/friendlyanon/cmake-init-gif-engine

This example shows how to handle installing internal dependencies when the public targets are static libraries:

• https://github.com/friendlyanon/cmake-init-multi-target

This example shows how to create multiple packages via CPack from a single project:

• https://github.com/friendlyanon/cmake-init-multiple-packages

This example shows how to create a library that has a dependency that does not support clients who use CMake:

• https://github.com/friendlyanon/cmake-init-use-pkg-config
  Although this example focuses on a dependency that provides a .pc file, that is only a minor detail and things would be largely the same regardless.

This example shows how to propagate transitive dependencies:

• https://github.com/friendlyanon/cmake-init-transitive

This example shows how to do code generation using a tool that is checked into version control as a separate project:

• https://github.com/friendlyanon/cmake-init-codegen

This project shows how to use CTest scripts to run your CI:

• https://github.com/friendlyanon/check-type-align

This example shows how to use the above CMake module to create opaque structs:

• https://github.com/friendlyanon/generate-opaque-structs

This examples shows how to vendor dependencies transparently using FetchContent and find modules, without compromising idiomatic find_package usage:

• https://github.com/friendlyanon/cmake-init-fetchcontent
  This could be useful in situations where the developer does not wish to create a vcpkg overlay port to consume a dependency, because there is quick iteration in both the dependency and the dependee.

This is a relatively uninteresting SFML 2.5 "Hello world" example:

• https://github.com/friendlyanon/cmake-init-sfml-example

This example shows off using an in-source build tool, cross compiling and code generation:

• https://github.com/friendlyanon/cmake-init-build-tool