Creating and Managing Config-Files

Let's learn about safely generating and installing target export files and writing basic config-files.

We'll cover the following

Writing basic config-files
- Try it yourself
Creating advanced config-files

Writing basic config-files

A complete package definition consists of the target export files, the package's config-file, and the package's version file, but technically, all that's needed for find_package() to work is a config-file. It's considered a package definition, and it's responsible for providing any package functions and macros, checking requirements, finding dependencies, and including target export files.

As we mentioned earlier, users can install our package anywhere on their system by using the following command:

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Introduction to the Course

First Steps with CMake

The CMake Language

Setting Up Our First CMake Project

Working with Targets

Compiling C++ Sources with CMake

Linking with CMake

Modern CMake for C++ Exam 1

Managing Dependencies with CMake

Testing Frameworks

Program Analysis Tools

Generating Documentation

Installing and Packaging

Creating Our Professional Project

Conclusion

Appendix

Creating and Managing Config-Files

Writing basic config-files