a single Makefile bootstrap for a simple C++ project with cmake

README.md

a pre-make for CMake based projects

This is my simple pre-make script for bootstrapping CMake for a small project

Usage

Use the [RAW] button on the Makefileto find the raw file location, then copy it to your clipboard. Download this file to your local project workspace via curl with the URL or the raw file.

$ mkdir new-project
$ cd new-project
$ curl -sSL https://gist.github.io/raw-path-to-this-gist  > Makefile
$ make

See also

premake5 - A more comprehensive and cross-platform/cross-architecture pre-make system.

Makefile

PROJECT = main
MAINCPP = main.cpp
CMAKELISTS = CMakeLists.txt

.PHONY: clean run bootstrap all

all: build/$(PROJECT)

build/$(PROJECT): $(MAINCPP) build
	$(MAKE) -C build

build: $(CMAKELISTS)
	@ rm -rf build
	cmake -B build

run: build/$(PROJECT)
	build/$(PROJECT)

clean:
	rm -rf build

$(MAINCPP) $(CMAKELISTS):
	rm -f $(CMAKELISTS) $(MAINCPP)
	@ echo "cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.14)" >> $(CMAKELISTS)
	@ echo "project(main)" >> $(CMAKELISTS)
	@ echo "set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)" >> $(CMAKELISTS)
	@ echo "add_executable(main main.cpp)" >> $(CMAKELISTS)
	@ echo "#include <iostream>" >> $(MAINCPP)
	@ echo "" >> $(MAINCPP)
	@ echo "int main(void) {" >> $(MAINCPP)
	@ echo "    // write new code here" >> $(MAINCPP)
	@ echo "    std::cout << \"main() done!\" << std::endl;" >> $(MAINCPP)
	@ echo "    return 0;" >> $(MAINCPP)
	@ echo "}" >> $(MAINCPP)