Cmake

A C++ API to configure and build CMake projects. More...

Classes
class	cpp::CMakeProject
	Configures and builds an existing CMake project. More...
class	cpp::CMakeTarget
	Represents a CMake target being watched by a project. More...

Detailed Description

A C++ API to configure and build CMake projects.

siplasplas-cmake provides a simple API to work with CMake projects. It's not a CMake instrospection API but an API to configure and build existing CMake projects with runtime C++ compilation in mind.

The API has two different roles:

• Building projects: A CMakeProject takes a source directory and a binary directory to work with, giving methods to configure the project and build given targets. It works simply by issuing cmake <source dir> and cmake --build <binary dir> --target <target> commands.
• Watching projects: A CMake project can also keep track of given CMakeTarget instances to watch for target changes and rebuild them automatically.

CMake targets can be described by a set of associated properties (Name, source files, include directories, etc. See CMakeTarget::Metadata), or by loading that properties directly from a JSON file (See CMakeTarget::Metadata::loadFromFile()).

The API uses signals to notify events related to the CMake projects, such as a finished build, a build triggered by a source file change, etc.