This is a cmake based C++ demo project. You can quickly and easily boostrap a new C++ cmake project from this git repository.

It is not easy to set up a new C++ repository from scratch. This repository is a good start, and you can build your project from here.

This demo project includes almost everything that a rigorous project should have.

• CMake support
• Code sanitizer
• Code coverage
• GoogleTest and Google Benchmark support
• Doxygen and a builtin theme
• Clang format and clang tidy support
• CMake ExternalProject based dependency management
• CPack based package support
• Dev Container support
• Github workflows support
• Integration of all above

1. Clone this repository git clone https://github.com/wangzw/cxx-cmake-project-template.git
2. Run bootstrap.sh YourProjectName to change project name
3. Update project information in top level CMakeLists.txt

Now, you are almost done to bootstrap a new project. And then you can set up your development environment with DevContainer or just start a Docker container using docker compose

With DevContainer:

devcontainer up --workspace-folder .

With Docker compose:

docker compose up -d

And now you have a container based development environment with all dependencies.

Some CMake functions and predefined targets are created to ease the use of CMake.

The following functions are used to add your targets. Replace xxx to your project name in lower case. They have covered many details such as clang-tidy, code coverage, code sanitizer and installation.

xxx_add_library()
xxx_add_executable()
xxx_add_example()
xxx_add_test()
xxx_add_benchmark()

And there are also some predefined targets:

• test - to run all tests
• benchmark - to run benchmark tests.
• docs - to build doxygen based documents.
• check_public_header - to check integration of installed headers.
• coverage - to generate html format code coverage report
• coverage-xml - to generate xml format code coverage report

When you add your own third party dependencies into thirdparty/CMakeLists.txt or update Dockerfile, you need to build your own docker image.

1. Update image name in docker-compose.yml and workflow files in .github/workflows/.
2. Build your own docker image with docker build -t your-image-name .

You can build and push your own docker image to your image repository manually. Or build your image using Github workflows. Check workflow file .github/workflows/image.yml for details.