CMake for the impatient
summary
A practical walkthrough shows CMake creating a simple executable that prints hello cmake and scaffolds both Visual Studio and Ninja/GCC builds (producing a build.ninja and world.exe) so configuration is separate from rebuilds. Examples cover include and link paths, debug vs optimized library selection for SFML, bringing in Google test via FetchContent, and using IDEs (Visual Studio and CLion) to inspect generated projects, with demos that actually build and run.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00CMake introduction
- 3:56CMake basics
- 12:33CMake generators
- 20:28Why CMake over Make
- 24:42CMake standard for C++
- 26:07Dependency management
- 31:30Third-party libraries
- 35:45Debug and release
- 41:46Fetching dependencies
- 45:00Project structure
- 47:54Modular projects
- 48:14Tooling and IDE
- 50:22Large projects
- 50:43Q&A
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