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CMake Presets

Associate Instructor at Feabhas Ltd
An independent IT trainer Martin has over 40 years academic and commercial experience in open systems software engineering. He has worked with a range of technologies from real time process controllers, through compilers, to large scale parallel processing systems; and across multiple sectors including industrial systems, semi-conductor manufacturing, telecomms, banking, MoD, and government.
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Introduction

When we developed the CMake based toolchain for our training projects  we used a shell script to simplify invoking the cmake command line. CMake 3.19 added a presets feature that allows us to define command line parameters in a CMakeSettings.json file which can be used in place of using multiple command parameters.

In previous articles about CMake we have shown how we need to specify  command line parameters to use CMake with an embedded target  toolchain (see CMake Part 3). To […]

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