While CMake has become the de-facto standard buildsystem for C++, it's siblings CTest and CPack are less well known. This talk gives a lightspeed introduction into these three tools and then focuses on best practices on building, testing, and packaging. We will learn how to manage dependencies and export our libraries in such a way that they can be easily used by our clients. We will crosscompile for different platforms and run our tests in an emulator. We will analyze code coverage and perform static and dynamic code analysis.
Daniel is an Electrical Engineer turned into a Computer Scientist. He works as C++ developer, system architect, trainer and guru for C++ and CMake. Daniel is the founder of the C++ user group in Munich. He is also an active contributor to CMake and knows some undocumented interna... Read More →