Introduction

XCommon CMake is a build system for xcore applications and libraries. It uses CMake to configure and generate a build environment, using git to fetch any missing dependencies, which can then be built with xmake.

The aim of XCommon CMake is to use a standard tool (CMake) to accelerate the development of xcore applications without requiring knowledge of the CMake language.

The minimum versions of required tools are listed in the Software Requirements.

Overview

An application executable is built from separate components: application sources, module sources and static libraries.

Each component sets some CMake variables to define its own properties and its dependency relationships with other components.

Then XCommon CMake utility functions provide a CMake implementation to create a build environment with the properties as defined in the components.

To support this functionality, a sandbox structure is assumed. Within this structure, XCommon CMake is able to fetch missing dependencies.