Radovan Bast - CMake Cookbook

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Radovan Bast works at the High Performance Computing Group at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway in Troms and leads the CodeRefinery project. He has a PhD in theoretical chemistry and contributes to a number of quantum chemistry programs as a code developer . He enjoys learning new programming languages and techniques, and teaching programming to students and researchers. He got in touch with CMake in 2008 and has ported a number of research codes and migrated a number of communities to CMake since then.

Roberto Di Remigio is a postdoctoral fellow in theoretical chemistry at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway in Troms, Norway and Virginia Tech, USA. He is currently working on stochastic methods and solvation models. He is a developer of the PCMSolver library and the Psi4 open source quantum chemistry program. He contributes or has contributed to the development of popular quantum chemistry codes and libraries: DIRAC, MRCPP, DALTON, LSDALTON, XCFun, and ReSpect. He usually programs in C++ and Fortran.

Holding an engineering degree from ENSEEIHT and a PhD in computer science from UVSQ in France, Eric Noulard has been writing and compiling source code in a variety of languages for 20 years. A user of CMake since 2006, he has also been an active contributor to the project for several years. During his career, Eric has worked for private companies and government agencies. He is now employed by Antidot, a software vendor developing and marketing high-end information retrieval technology and solutions.

Shlomi Fish is an Israeli software developer and writer. He has been contributing to various open source and open culture projects since at least 2000. Among other endeavors, he has initiated some solvers for games, which led to him maintaining the PySol FC suite of solitaire games, adopting fortune-mod, solving over 290 Project Euler problems, and writing several stories, essays, aphorisms, and other documents.

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Computer software is present in almost every aspect of our daily lives: it triggers our alarm clocks, fuels our communication, banking, weather forecasts, bus schedules, calendars, meetings, travel, photo albums, television, music streaming, social media, dinner and movie reservations, from dawn till dusk.

The software that surrounds us contains many layers: apps are built on top of frameworks, frameworks on top of libraries, libraries use smaller libraries and executables, all the way down to smaller and smaller software components. Libraries and executables in turn need to be built from source code. Often we only see the outermost layer, but all these layers need to be carefully organized and built. This book is about how to build libraries and executables from sources using CMake.

CMake and its siblings, CTest, CPack, and CDash, have emerged as the leading toolset for building software from sources, surpassing in usage and popularity many other similar tools, such as the venerated GNU Autotools and the more recent, Python-based, SCons build system.