Give me a mechanism for creating executables.

[dabrahams]

Libs are awesome, I need to solve the same problems for a simple command-line tool

[sean-parent]

I agree - but that would be a separate project. There are too many differences to make "executable" an option.

• Documentation: man and --help instead of doxygen
• Install in .bin with cmake artifacts
• Unit tests - not sure how doctest would work, and we would also want command line tests in ctest

Maybe I also need to do a cpp-tool project?

[dabrahams]

Same project. My app is 99% library

[sean-parent]

Suggestions? The design of cpp-library is to allow small libraries, so maybe bundling the library & executable is not the right approach. I think you could just say add_executable(tool src/main.cpp) after cpp_library_setup() and leave main.cpp out of your library sources. Does that work?

[dabrahams]

You tell me! 😄