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Effective Modern CMake

Effective Modern CMake

Getting Started

For a brief user-level introduction to CMake, watch C++ Weekly, Episode 78, Intro to CMake by Jason Turner. LLVM’s CMake Primer provides a good high-level introduction to the CMake syntax. Go read it now.

After that, watch Mathieu Ropert’s CppCon 2017 talk Using Modern CMake Patterns to Enforce a Good Modular Design (slides). It provides a thorough explanation of what modern CMake is and why it is so much better than “old school” CMake. The modular design ideas in this talk are based on the book [Large-Scale C++ Software Design](https://www.amazon.de/Large-Scale-Soft

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beeman / remove-all-from-docker.sh
Created November 15, 2016 03:04
Remove all from Docker
# Stop all containers
docker stop `docker ps -qa`
# Remove all containers
docker rm `docker ps -qa`
# Remove all images
docker rmi -f `docker images -qa `
# Remove all volumes
template <class Fun>
class ScopeGuard {
Fun f_;
bool active_;
public:
ScopeGuard(Fun f)
: f_(std::move(f))
, active_(true) {
}
~ScopeGuard() { if (active_) f_(); }