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Title: Getting started with cmake (and the rest of the linux ecosystem)
Post by: nelwkesi on November 24, 2021, 04:05:13 am

I'm moving my dev environment from windows to linux and I keep stumbling over things that aren't just implemented differently than they are on windows, but start from completely different basic assumptions about how things should work.

So the question is: Do you know of any good cmake tutorials?

It's easy to find a cmake tutorial. It's also easy to find people who say "no that tutorial is bad because it teaches X and Y which are terrible hacks and not recommended."

So what's good?

Title: Re: Getting started with cmake (and the rest of the linux ecosystem)
Post by: eXpl0it3r on November 24, 2021, 09:44:33 am

I've not gone through all the tutorials, but here are some that I think can be quite valuable:

• Official CMake tutorial: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/cmake-buildsystem.7.html
• The best book on CMake: https://crascit.com/professional-cmake/
• Video tutorials on CMake: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8i3OhJb4FNV10aIZ8oF0AA46HgA2ed8g
• Nice introduction: https://cliutils.gitlab.io/modern-cmake/chapters/basics.html