In this article, we look at some more advanced concepts in CMake that will help you automate your build process from start to end. We first look at programming with variables, conditional statements, and loops, and then look at functions and macros, configure files, generator expressions, and finally policies. If you master these concepts, you …
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In this article, we take a deep dive into CMake and see how we can use it to compile two simple projects: one to generate an executable and another one to generate a static library. We will pick up these examples from our previous article and see how we can modify them to incorporate a …
In this article, we take a look at automating the software build stage using build and systems. We look at what options are available to us and why CMake, in particular, stands out as the most suitable choice for build automation. It enjoys the largest user base among all build systems, and chances are that …
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In this article, we’ll explore ChatGPT’s capabilities to write CFD solvers from scratch. We’ll explore two types of applications: a simple model equation commonly used to study numerical schemes and a 2D CFD solver that hard-codes initial and boundary conditions but otherwise implements enough logic to be classified as a fully functioning CFD solver. We …
In this article, we look at how we can annotate our code so it can be picked up by a documentation tool to provide automatic code documentation for us. There are good and bad ways to do this, and unfortunately, more often than not, code documentation is a dreaded task by programmers and is done …
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In this article, we will explore the three main components that makeup code documentation. We will explore why providing documentation is important and how it improves the chance that others will start using your code. We also look at situations where writing documentation for the sake of it may lead to pointless documentation and this …
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If you want to develop CFD codes or simply run some examples found on this website, you will need a sensible programming and development environment on your PC or laptop. In this article, we look at how to set one up on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Compiling code on different platforms has historically been a …
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In this final article on software testing, we look at test coverage. We discuss first what it is and what a good test coverage looks like. We then jump straight into an example and learn how to use gcov and lcov, two popular tools for reporting test coverage, and see how we can compute test …
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In this article, we look at the last remaining topic in our series on software testing; Mocking. This aspect plays a a very big role in the testing of web and mobile applications, but not so much for console applications such as CFD solvers. However, there are specific use cases where mocking can help us …
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