Agenda: CMake (2026-08-19 - 2026-08-20)

Slide Material

• CMake: Introduction

• CMake: Advanced Topics

Day 1: Basics

Lets start by giving an understanding of CMake’s concepts, some build terminology, and start to build a straighforward (and pointless) code base.

• Basic Usage: Generators, Building

• Libraries, And Dependencies

• Shared Libraries (Preview)

• Installation (“Deployment”)

• Structure - Subdirectories, Dependencies, and Include Paths

• C++, Debug/Release, CMake “Programming”, Rants

Day 2: Into The Wild

CMake is rather powerful, and has its wrinkles too, which we will dedicate the second day. The topics below are probably a bit too much for one day to cover in detail: lets decide at the end of day 1 which of the topics to cover.

• Targets, Properties, And More

• Screenplay: Public And Private Include Directories

• The Language

  • Language Basics

  • Variables

  • if, And Conditions

  • while Loops

  • foreach Loops

  • Datatypes

  • Functions And Macros

  • Filesystem Interaction, Pathname Manipulation

  • Scripts

• Screenplay: Function Wrapping add_library()

• Screenplay: Adding SQLite3 External Dependency

• Screenplay: Making SQLite3 Optional (target_compile_definitions())

• Screenplay: Making SQLite3 Optional (configure_file())

• Screenplay: Integrating libmosquitto (MQTT - Handwritten Find-Module)

• Screenplay: Generated Code (add_custom_command())

• Running Tests