In this final article in our series on build automation, we look at how we can provide our own Conan recipe to compile and package our libraries with Conan so that we can store them in our local Conan cache for easy reuse in other projects. We will be able to put our own libraries …
How to use Conan to manage your own CMake-based libraries Read More »
In this article, we will look at how we can use CMake to compile and install a library we have developed, be it a static, dynamic, or header-only library. We look at all the steps we need to take to make the installation successful, which will contain steps to automatically generate files that other projects …
How to compile, install, and use custom libraries with CMake Read More »
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 will be looking at package managers for C++ and how we can use them to compile and install libraries with as little as a single command line input. Specifically, we look at Conan, an open-source package manager for C/C++ which is gaining a lot of momentum in C++ circles. We’ll look …
How to handle C++ libraries with a package manager Read More »
In this article, we have a bit of ground to cover. We will look at how we can take the library code that we developed over the last few articles and turn it into either a static, dynamic, or header-only library. While static and dynamic libraries only differ in the compilation process, we have to …
How to write a CFD library: Compiling and testing Read More »