Cpp Boilerplate with Catch && Cxxopts

This is my boilerplate for C++ projects using Catch for testing and Cxxopts for option parsing.

Folder strucutre

|-- apps/
|    | # Here goes your executable files. 
|    | # Each file here will generate a correspondent exec file in bin/
|-- bin/
|    | # Compiled binaries will go here
|-- build/
|    | # Build temp folder
|-- include/
|    |-- catch.hpp # Catch test library
|    |-- cxxopts.hpp # Cxxopts option parser library
|    | # Other header files should go here
|-- src/
|    | # Place your non-exec files here
|-- test/
|    |-- main.cpp # Main Catch test executable
|    | # Create your test files here
|-- Makefile # See this file for more detail on building
|-- README.md
+-- run_tests # Test helper to build and pass Catch params to it

Running tests

This project uses Catch for testing. You can run ./run_tests. If you want to pass Catch parameters, you just pass it to ./run_tests

Building

This project uses make to build. So to run, just type make in the shell.

If you want to create an executable bundled with stdlib (to increase portability) you can run make bin/dist/yourbinary

For now, all files from src/ are linked in all test and executable files. If you want to change this, you can change the Makefile

Creating binaries

Just create a .cpp file in apps/ and you can use Cxxopts