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The Great CMake CookOff

This is a repository of useful and less than useful CMake recipes. It is distributed under the MIT License.

The information in this wiki currently holds for the refactor branch only.

• Adding this repository to a cmake project
• Find or install a package, aka lookup
• Find or install a python package, aka python lookup
• CPP11 (CMake > 3.0 now provides target_compile_feature to do this)
• [[Cross vendor isnan]]
• Cross vendor aligned allocations
• Getting version and git hashes
• Python virtual environment
• [[find_package for python modules]]
• Code-signing for MacOS/X
• Target for copying files and directories
• Testing CMake scripts
• From cached variables to command-line arguments
• Environment scripts
• Extra FindSomething
• Installing python packages built by a CMake project
• Creating python packages
• Adding the Catch testing framework