What tutorials do you guys recommend for beginners?
I want something snappy and clear to give to people that demonstrates modern CMake practices.
The official CMake tutorial isn’t really great for beginners. Since it goes into packaging/installing/testing way too soon. And it really clutters things for beginners. Especially new C++ college students.
Most people just wanna build their C++ code asap. Worry about the rest later.
Here is a tutorial that is being maintained with CMake releases:
An Introduction To Modern CMake was originally written by Henry Schreiner. Other contributors can be found listed on GitLab.
I think this is a good place to get started. It’s quick, snappy, and looks nice!
It even links to more tutorials/places. In case it isn’t enough.
I recommend Craig Scott’s book of course. This book is invaluable as a CMake developer:
I have a blog with some free and cool cmake articles: That One Game Dev
Otherwise you can check out my paid course on Udemy: