CPP Project

A tool designed for personal use to simplify the creation of C++ projects.

Table of Contents

• Build
• Usage
• Flags

Build

To build the project, follow these steps:

1. Create a build directory and navigate into it:

   mkdir build
   cd build

2. Run CMake and make:

   cmake ..
   make

Alternatively, you can use the installation script:

./install.sh

Templates

In order to create a template you'll need to either run cpp_project at least once with or without any arguments or run the following commands.

cd ~/.config
mkdir -p ./cpp_project/templates
cd ./cpp_project/templates
mkdir example_template

Then you'd have to create a CMakeLists.txt file within the newly created directory using these placeholders:

• __PROJECT_NAME__: Placeholder for the first argument used.
• __NAME__: Placeholder for either the first argument or the name flag.
• __VERSION__: Placeholder for the version flag.
• __DESCRIPTION__: Placeholder for the description flag.

Example CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.10)

project(__PROJECT_NAME__
        VERSION __VERSION__
        DESCRIPTION "__DESCRIPTION__")

file(GLOB CXX_SOURCES "src/*.c*")

add_executable(__NAME__ ${CXX_SOURCES})

Usage

To create a new project, use the following command:

cpp_project <project_name> [flags]

Flags

The following flags are available:

• -h, --help: Outputs a help message.
• -n, --name: Sets the project binary's name.
• -d, --description: Sets the project's description.
• -v, --version: Sets the project version.
• -s, --shared: Makes the project a shared library.
• -t, --template: Copies the template. If no template is given it'll output the available templates.

Example

Here’s an example of how to create a new project:

cpp_project MyAwesomeProject -n "project" -d "This is an awesome project!" -v "1.0.0"

This is the expected output from the example given above:

Project Information:
        Name: project
        Verison: 1.0.0
        Description: This is an awesome project!
        Shared: 0
        Directory: ./MyAwesomeProject