CMake¶

Before beginning to create a project and try to compile it with PyCmake, you must create a CMake object. He will used to manage common features and can receive your compilers.

cmake = CMake()

Now you can add set global settings of CMake:

min_required = 'VERSION 3.5'
policy = 'VERSION 3.5'
cmake.add_settings(min_required, policy)

Compilers¶

You must add at least one compiler to get PyCmake functional. Then you can add other compilers, flags for each of them and manage global settings of CMake.

Valid compiler_id are currently:

GCC or G++

CLANG or CLANG++

MSVC or MSVC++

Let’s create a Compiler for GNU:

compiler = Compiler()
compiler_id = 'G++'
compiler.create('G++-5', 'C++', compiler_id, 5, '/usr/bin/g++-5')

Now that the compiler was created, we can add it to our cmake object. CMake object has method and members for each supported compiler:

cmake.gnu_compiler(compiler)
# Or for Clang:
# cmake.clang_compiler(compiler)

The advantage with the object Compiler is that you can easily use create() to create a new one and add it to our object CMake. But take care, it will replace the previous values.

Flags¶

Your compiler can receive flags to ensure your project compiles as needed. You need object Flags to make it:

gcc_flags = Flags('G++-5 Flags', '-std=c++11', 'Wall', '-GL')
cmake.flags_to_compiler(compiler_id, gcc_flags)

As you can see, flags name is not important, that’s compiler_id who make the link between your flags and your compilers.

Now your CMake is ready to receive a Project.