CPP learnings

This is a repository to learn advanced c++ concepts and clear the basics of that language, understand multithreaded environments and other cool stuffs. Codeowner file is pushed as of now. More to come.

Generate the build files

The project uses cmake for building the binaries, ensure you have the latest cmake installed. Follow the following steps for building and running the project

# Generate a build
cmake [-G <GENEREATOR>] -S . -B build <TARGET_OPTIONS>

The first parameter [-G <GENERATOR>] is optional, by default you should get

• UNIX makefiles on MACOS/UNIX/LINUX
• MinGW makefiles on windows if installed, otherwise Visual Studio However you can specify any of the options below to change the default generator to, substitute it in place of <GENERATOR>
• XCode (MACOS Only)
• NMAKE Makefiles (Windows Only)
• Visual Studio (Windows Only)
• Unix Makefiles (If not selected by default)
• MinGW Makefiles

The second parameter <TARGET_OPTIONS> can take the following values

• -DBUILD_TARGET_ALL
• -DBUILD_TARGET_CACHE
• -DBUILD_TARGET_CPP_THREADS
• -DBUILD_TARGET_STL
• -DBUILD_TARGET_GENERICS

BUILD_TARGET_ALL will build all of the targets, you can the other options, multiple at once to only build specific targets For example

cmake -G "XCode" -S . -B build -DBUILD_TARGET_CPP_THREADS -DBUILD_TARGET_CACHE

is only going to build Cpp-Threads and Cache targets

Build the project

If you selected any of "Unix Makefiles, MinGW Makefiles, NMAKE Makefiles". you can directly run

cmake --build build

Otherwise the project files for the respecitve IDEs would be generated for you inside build/, open that in your IDE and build the project

Run

If you select the default build or specify one which is any of "Unix Makefiles, MinGW Makefiles, NMAKE Makefiles" You can run the executables that were generated inside build/ Otherwise they may be present inside Debug, Release, x64, x86 folders