Cmake guide and tricks

You’ll never become a better C++ programmer if you can’t work well with cmake. ~Me

General Tips:

• First of all, be careful about the case sensitivity of cmake. All arguments-the things coming between paranthesis- are case sensitive.
• For being able to see the console output (std::cout) in your QtCreator environment, you need to add WIN_EXECTUABLE to False inside the set_target_properties.
• I like this github.io page on the cmake tutorial.

Qt Basic code steps:

1. project(NAME LANGUAGES CXX): you need to specify a name for the project and the language of the source files it includes. cxx is an older name for cpp.
2. find_package(Qt REQUIRED COMPONENTS ...): the packages you require the running machine to have installed.
3. qt_add_executable(TARGETNAME .cpp .h) create target name. Targets are a bundle of resources, libraries that the project requires you to have.
4. set_target_properties(TARGETNAME PROPERTIES WIN32_EXECUTABLE TRUE ) I don’t exactly know what this should do!
5. target_link_libraries(<target>...<item>)
6. install(<target>... BUNDLE DESTINATION . LIBRARY DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR} RUNTIME DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR} )**