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A modern cmake starter project for C++ with a complete build lifecycle, testing, dependency management, etc. Portable across Linux, OS X and Windows. Have you ever found yourself spending countless hours trying to figure out how to start a professional C++ project with unit tests, a robust dev workflow, change logs, code coverage, linting, formatting...? The C++ ecosystem is getting better but is still very far away from other ecosystems such as JavaScript, or even Rust. It's certainly easy to use CMake, a compiler and vscode to start a hello world project, but as soon as you start having multiple modules, with third party dependencies, testing, coverage, and other development things that a professional quality project needs, you start wasting hours and hours troubleshooting and configuring until you make it work. This starter project solves most of your problems, using the best practices for C++ development and modern CMake and allows you to get started in minutes rather than days.
Features
- CMake as the build system with or without presets
- Cross-platform portability on Linux, OS X and Windows
- Multiple compilers: clang, g++ and MSVC
- Modular structure with each module self-contained in a subdirectory within the project
- CMake build helpers to facilitate declaration of library, exe, test modules, for the end-to-end lifecycle including doc generation, test, packaging etc...
- Unit testing targets, with by default Google Test as the framework (other frameworks are also possible)
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