Craig Scott, Author at Crascit

Craig Scott April 3, 2016

CMake can be used to do more than just configure a build, it can also hide platform differences for other

Craig Scott January 31, 2016

With CMake 3.1, a new command target_sources() was introduced which provides the missing piece among the various target_… commands.

Craig Scott November 29, 2015

Let’s explore your understanding of member function overloading. For a given class, how many different non-template overloads can you define

Craig Scott September 21, 2015

I recently came across an interesting use of std::move which looked something like the following: void MyObject::processItems() { std::vector<int>

Craig Scott August 7, 2015

CMake/CPack does a pretty good job of making it relatively easy to create a basic Windows installer. Sometimes, however, it

Craig Scott July 25, 2015

Arguably the most flexible, robust way to incorporate gtest or gmock into a CMake project.

Craig Scott June 3, 2015

In a previous article, the OnLeavingScope class was presented as a technique for robustly and concisely handling scenarios involving multi-step

Craig Scott May 27, 2015

A common sequence of steps we mortal software developers frequently find ourselves implementing goes something like this: Perform some sort

Craig Scott April 3, 2015

A common situation facing many projects is how to incorporate large binary assets into the main source code and its

Craig Scott March 28, 2015

Updated June 2020 With the constant evolution of C++, build systems have had to deal with the complication of selecting