The current install-rules double indent the include folder: as in installation_prefix/include/libname/libname/header.hpp. At least when running: cmake --install build_folder_path --prefix=./installation_prefix

Removing these three lines seems to be a better default behavior. When we tried to get our library on vcpkg, this was an issue which blocked us from merging.

I have created a sample project without cmake-init to test if vcpkg/cmakke/etc were working correctly.

With a CMakeLists.txt containing

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.20)
project(fibo CXX)

find_package(fmt  REQUIRED)
find_package(range-v3  REQUIRED)

add_executable(fibo main.cpp)
target_compile_features(fibo PRIVATE cxx_std_17)

target_link_libraries(fibo
  PRIVATE
    fmt::fmt
    range-v3::range-v3)

everything works fine.

When I create a project with cmake-init, it stops being able to detect range-v3, but it does detect fmt.

environment:

cmake version 3.20.2 cmake-init version 0.31.2

steps to reproduce

1. create a cmake-init project, select vcpkg as the package manager
2. Open project in clion, and add "-DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=C:/tools/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake" to the cmake profile.
3. add these lines to the generated CMakeLists.txt:

find_package(fmt  REQUIRED)
find_package(range-v3  REQUIRED)
target_link_libraries(cmtest_lib PRIVATE fmt::fmt range-v3::range-v3)

4. reset cmake cache and reload project

Result:

"C:\Program Files\JetBrains\CLion 2021.2.3\bin\cmake\win\bin\cmake.exe" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=C:/tools/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake -DCMAKE_DEPENDS_USE_COMPILER=FALSE -G "CodeBlocks - NMake Makefiles" C:\Users\Massiveatoms\Desktop\compsci\cmtest
-- Running vcpkg install
Detecting compiler hash for triplet x64-windows...
Detecting compiler hash for triplet x86-windows...
All requested packages are currently installed.
Restored 0 package(s) from C:\Users\Massiveatoms\AppData\Local\vcpkg\archives in 336.4 us. Use --debug to see more details.

Total elapsed time: 14.25 s

The package fmt provides CMake targets:

    find_package(fmt CONFIG REQUIRED)
    target_link_libraries(main PRIVATE fmt::fmt)

    # Or use the header-only version
    find_package(fmt CONFIG REQUIRED)
    target_link_libraries(main PRIVATE fmt::fmt-header-only)

-- Running vcpkg install - done
CMake Error at C:/tools/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake:824 (_find_package):
  By not providing "Findrange-v3.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has
  asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "range-v3",
  but CMake did not find one.

  Could not find a package configuration file provided by "range-v3" with any
  of the following names:

    range-v3Config.cmake
    range-v3-config.cmake

  Add the installation prefix of "range-v3" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
  "range-v3_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files.  If
  "range-v3" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has
  been installed.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  CMakeLists.txt:32 (find_package)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "C:/Users/Massiveatoms/Desktop/compsci/cmtest/cmake-build-debug/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".

[Failed to reload]

I have no idea what other information you need, so if you need further information, feel free to ask

From a fresh install, all attempts to use the --std flag are failing

$ uname -a
Linux user 5.13.4-200.fc34.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jul 20 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ pip install --user cmake-init
...
Successfully installed cmake-init-0.20.4

$ cmake-init -h .
...
You are all set. Have fun programming and create something awesome!

$ cmake-init -h --std c++17 .
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/.local/bin/cmake-init", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(pypi_main())
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/cmake_init_lib/__init__.py", line 14, in pypi_main
    main(zip)
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/cmake_init_lib/cmake_init.py", line 489, in main
    create(args, zip)
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/cmake_init_lib/cmake_init.py", line 299, in create
    d = get_substitutes(args, os.path.basename(path))
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/cmake_init_lib/cmake_init.py", line 133, in get_substitutes
    "std": ask(
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/cmake_init_lib/cmake_init.py", line 83, in ask
    return prompt(*args, **kwargs, no_prompt=no_prompt)
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/cmake_init_lib/cmake_init.py", line 61, in prompt
    raise ValueError()
ValueError

The build_requirements method is better suitable for test framework dependencies because tests are only relevant during a package build from sources and provide no good use in delivered packages. Relevant documentation links: https://docs.conan.io/en/latest/reference/conanfile/methods.html#build-requirements https://docs.conan.io/en/latest/migrating_to_2.0/recipes.html#requirements

Related to #42

I looked at the available dependencies in Conan Center Index for C and there doesn't seem to be one that strikes me as one that would be nice to use as a default to have as an example. For C++ project, the obvious defaults are fmt (dependency) and Catch2 (dev dependency).

One that I think could be okay is json-c, because it has a proper CMake package that can be consistently consumed via either package managers. This makes setting the install config up for library type projects trivial.
I haven't look at a dev dependency for C projects yet.

I am thinking of adding a -p flag for package manager biolerplate. C++ projects would be importing the fmt library, I'll have to thing about what to import for C projects.

Hello! First, thank you for the wonderful project! This is a great reference for modern and essential CMake practices.

I am wondering whether it would be useful to have the build directory be compatible with find_package. With the changes, a user would be able to find and use the targets of this project from the build directory instead of requiring installation.

Not requiring installation can help to reduce the development cycle if this project is being actively developed to support features of the project depending on this project.

As a motivating concrete example, using the test directory since it's also a standalone project, a user would be able to do the following:

cmake-init /tmp/shared -s

cd /tmp/shared
cmake --preset=dev
cmake --build --preset=dev

cmake -S /tmp/shared/test \
  -B /tmp/shared/test/build \
  -Dshared_DIR=/tmp/shared/build/dev
cmake --build /tmp/shared/test/build
ctest --test-dir /tmp/shared/test/build

Notice that the installation command is not executed.

I have a working branch (feature/export-build-dir) in my fork, but I wanted to check here first to see whether a PR would have a chance of acceptance. The branch uses CMake's export and configure_package_config_file to achieve this.

Thank you!

zipapp is used to create a self-contained runnable artifact, but I'm not sure if this is the best way to go about things.

This hack is also not something I like to see in the code, but after local testing, this is the only thing that stopped Python from closing the file handle to the zip.

Currently, gif in the main readme played incredibly fast. There is a lot of text there, interesting text that advertised the library, but I can't read it because of the speed. It seems it needs a 5-10x slowdown to be useful.

Environment: Platform: Mac mini (M1, 2020) OS: macOS 12.4 CMake version: 3.24.0 cmake-init version: 0.31.2 conan version: 1.51.2

If I use Conan 1.50.2, it works.

error message for cmake-init with Conan 1.51.2: $ cmake --preset=dev

-- Using Conan toolchain: /Users/xanaduw/tmp/greatness/conan/conan_toolchain.cmake -- Conan: Component target declared 'fmt::fmt' CMake Error (dev) at conan/fmt-Target-debug.cmake:5 (set): uninitialized variable 'fmt_COMPILE_OPTIONS_CXX_DEBUG' Call Stack (most recent call first): conan/fmtTargets.cmake:26 (include) conan/fmt-config.cmake:10 (include) CMakeLists.txt:31 (find_package) This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it.

CMake Error (dev) at conan/fmt-Target-debug.cmake:5 (set):
uninitialized variable 'fmt_COMPILE_OPTIONS_C_DEBUG'
Call Stack (most recent call first):
conan/fmtTargets.cmake:26 (include)
conan/fmt-config.cmake:10 (include)
CMakeLists.txt:31 (find_package)
This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it.

CMake Error (dev) at conan/fmt-Target-debug.cmake:9 (set):
uninitialized variable 'fmt_SHARED_LINK_FLAGS_DEBUG'
Call Stack (most recent call first):
conan/fmtTargets.cmake:26 (include)
conan/fmt-config.cmake:10 (include)
CMakeLists.txt:31 (find_package)
This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it.

CMake Error (dev) at conan/fmt-Target-debug.cmake:9 (set):
uninitialized variable 'fmt_SHARED_LINK_FLAGS_DEBUG'
Call Stack (most recent call first):
conan/fmtTargets.cmake:26 (include)
conan/fmt-config.cmake:10 (include) CMakeLists.txt:31 (find_package) This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it.

CMake Error (dev) at conan/fmt-Target-debug.cmake:9 (set): uninitialized variable 'fmt_EXE_LINK_FLAGS_DEBUG' Call Stack (most recent call first): conan/fmtTargets.cmake:26 (include) conan/fmt-config.cmake:10 (include) CMakeLists.txt:31 (find_package) This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it.

CMake Error (dev) at conan/fmt-Target-debug.cmake:15 (conan_find_apple_frameworks): uninitialized variable 'fmt_FRAMEWORKS_DEBUG' Call Stack (most recent call first): conan/fmtTargets.cmake:26 (include) conan/fmt-config.cmake:10 (include) CMakeLists.txt:31 (find_package) This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it.

CMake Error (dev) at conan/fmt-Target-debug.cmake:15 (conan_find_apple_frameworks): [155/1907] uninitialized variable 'fmt_FRAMEWORK_DIRS_DEBUG' Call Stack (most recent call first): conan/fmtTargets.cmake:26 (include) conan/fmt-config.cmake:10 (include) CMakeLists.txt:31 (find_package) This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it.

CMake Error (dev) at conan/fmt-Target-debug.cmake:25 (set_property): uninitialized variable 'fmt_SYSTEM_LIBS_DEBUG' Call Stack (most recent call first): conan/fmtTargets.cmake:26 (include) conan/fmt-config.cmake:10 (include) CMakeLists.txt:31 (find_package) This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it.

CMake Error (dev) at conan/fmt-Target-debug.cmake:34 (conan_package_library_targets): uninitialized variable 'fmt_LIBS_DEBUG' Call Stack (most recent call first): conan/fmtTargets.cmake:26 (include) conan/fmt-config.cmake:10 (include) CMakeLists.txt:31 (find_package) This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it.

CMake Error (dev) at conan/fmt-Target-debug.cmake:34 (conan_package_library_targets): uninitialized variable 'fmt_LIB_DIRS_DEBUG' Call Stack (most recent call first): conan/fmtTargets.cmake:26 (include) conan/fmt-config.cmake:10 (include) CMakeLists.txt:31 (find_package) This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it.

CMake Error (dev) at conan/fmt-Target-debug.cmake:42 (set): uninitialized variable 'fmt_BUILD_DIRS_DEBUG' Call Stack (most recent call first): conan/fmtTargets.cmake:26 (include) conan/fmt-config.cmake:10 (include) CMakeLists.txt:31 (find_package) This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it.

CMake Error (dev) at conan/fmt-Target-debug.cmake:43 (set): uninitialized variable 'fmt_BUILD_DIRS_DEBUG' Call Stack (most recent call first): conan/fmtTargets.cmake:26 (include) conan/fmt-config.cmake:10 (include) CMakeLists.txt:31 (find_package) This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it.

CMake Error (dev) at conan/fmt-config.cmake:23 (set): [107/1907] uninitialized variable 'fmt_INCLUDE_DIRS_DEBUG' Call Stack (most recent call first): CMakeLists.txt:31 (find_package) This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it.

CMake Error (dev) at conan/fmt-config.cmake:24 (set): uninitialized variable 'fmt_INCLUDE_DIRS_DEBUG' Call Stack (most recent call first): CMakeLists.txt:31 (find_package) This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it.

CMake Error (dev) at conan/fmt-config.cmake:26 (set): uninitialized variable 'fmt_DEFINITIONS_DEBUG' Call Stack (most recent call first): CMakeLists.txt:31 (find_package) This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it.

-- Conan: Component target declared 'Catch2::Catch2' -- Conan: Component target declared 'Catch2::Catch2WithMain' CMake Error (dev) at conan/Catch2-Target-debug.cmake:5 (set): uninitialized variable 'catch2_COMPILE_OPTIONS_CXX_DEBUG' Call Stack (most recent call first): conan/Catch2Targets.cmake:26 (include) conan/Catch2Config.cmake:10 (include) test/CMakeLists.txt:9 (find_package) This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it. CMake Error (dev) at conan/Catch2-Target-debug.cmake:5 (set): uninitialized variable 'catch2_COMPILE_OPTIONS_C_DEBUG' Call Stack (most recent call first): conan/Catch2Targets.cmake:26 (include) conan/Catch2Config.cmake:10 (include) test/CMakeLists.txt:9 (find_package) This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it.

CMake Error (dev) at conan/Catch2-Target-debug.cmake:9 (set): uninitialized variable 'catch2_SHARED_LINK_FLAGS_DEBUG' Call Stack (most recent call first): conan/Catch2Targets.cmake:26 (include) conan/Catch2Config.cmake:10 (include) test/CMakeLists.txt:9 (find_package) This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it.

CMake Error (dev) at conan/Catch2-Target-debug.cmake:9 (set): uninitialized variable 'catch2_SHARED_LINK_FLAGS_DEBUG' Call Stack (most recent call first): conan/Catch2Targets.cmake:26 (include) conan/Catch2Config.cmake:10 (include) test/CMakeLists.txt:9 (find_package) This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it.

CMake Error (dev) at conan/Catch2-Target-debug.cmake:9 (set): uninitialized variable 'catch2_EXE_LINK_FLAGS_DEBUG' Call Stack (most recent call first): conan/Catch2Targets.cmake:26 (include) conan/Catch2Config.cmake:10 (include) test/CMakeLists.txt:9 (find_package) This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it.

CMake Error (dev) at conan/Catch2-Target-debug.cmake:15 (conan_find_apple_frameworks): uninitialized variable 'catch2_FRAMEWORKS_DEBUG' Call Stack (most recent call first): conan/Catch2Targets.cmake:26 (include) conan/Catch2Config.cmake:10 (include) test/CMakeLists.txt:9 (find_package) This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it.

CMake Error (dev) at conan/Catch2-Target-debug.cmake:15 (conan_find_apple_frameworks): uninitialized variable 'catch2_FRAMEWORK_DIRS_DEBUG' Call Stack (most recent call first): conan/Catch2Targets.cmake:26 (include) conan/Catch2Config.cmake:10 (include) test/CMakeLists.txt:9 (find_package) This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it.

CMake Error (dev) at conan/Catch2-Target-debug.cmake:25 (set_property): uninitialized variable 'catch2_SYSTEM_LIBS_DEBUG' Call Stack (most recent call first): conan/Catch2Targets.cmake:26 (include) conan/Catch2Config.cmake:10 (include) test/CMakeLists.txt:9 (find_package) This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it.

CMake Error (dev) at conan/Catch2-Target-debug.cmake:34 (conan_package_library_targets): uninitialized variable 'catch2_LIBS_DEBUG' Call Stack (most recent call first): conan/Catch2Targets.cmake:26 (include) conan/Catch2Config.cmake:10 (include) test/CMakeLists.txt:9 (find_package) This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it.

CMake Error (dev) at conan/Catch2-Target-debug.cmake:34 (conan_package_library_targets): uninitialized variable 'catch2_LIB_DIRS_DEBUG' Call Stack (most recent call first): conan/Catch2Targets.cmake:26 (include) conan/Catch2Config.cmake:10 (include) test/CMakeLists.txt:9 (find_package) This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it.

CMake Error (dev) at conan/Catch2-Target-debug.cmake:42 (set): uninitialized variable 'catch2_BUILD_DIRS_DEBUG' Call Stack (most recent call first): conan/Catch2Targets.cmake:26 (include) conan/Catch2Config.cmake:10 (include) test/CMakeLists.txt:9 (find_package) This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it.

CMake Error (dev) at conan/Catch2-Target-debug.cmake:43 (set): uninitialized variable 'catch2_BUILD_DIRS_DEBUG' Call Stack (most recent call first): conan/Catch2Targets.cmake:26 (include) conan/Catch2Config.cmake:10 (include) test/CMakeLists.txt:9 (find_package) This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it.

CMake Error (dev) at conan/Catch2Config.cmake:23 (set): uninitialized variable 'catch2_INCLUDE_DIRS_DEBUG' Call Stack (most recent call first): test/CMakeLists.txt:9 (find_package) This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it.

CMake Error (dev) at conan/Catch2Config.cmake:24 (set): uninitialized variable 'catch2_INCLUDE_DIRS_DEBUG' Call Stack (most recent call first): test/CMakeLists.txt:9 (find_package) This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it.

CMake Error (dev) at conan/Catch2Config.cmake:26 (set): uninitialized variable 'catch2_DEFINITIONS_DEBUG' Call Stack (most recent call first): test/CMakeLists.txt:9 (find_package) This error is for project developers. Use -Wno-error=dev to suppress it.

I have set up the project using cmake-init with vcpkg. I made an initial commit after the generation of code but GitHub reported that ci.yml generated has syntax error near the vcpkg installation step.

The file generated is here: https://pastebin.com/gQTA8p43

And the error reported by GitHub action is near line 55:

I did a check on the yaml syntax and think it has no issue. Can someone help me out with this?

Would a web version of cmake-init be of any use? Something similar to https://start.spring.io/

Some tools already require Python that generated projects offer integration with, so this is a really low priority issue in my book, especially since the Python code would need to be rewritten in JS.

As Doxygen doesn't quite work as well as one would hope ([1]), it might be time to look into alternatives.

One candidate so far is https://github.com/hdoc/hdoc

Hi, I got error CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM is not set.

My env is MacOS 11.3.1.

CMake version:

❯ cmake --version
cmake version 3.23.1

CMake suite maintained and supported by Kitware (kitware.com/cmake).

Error in Root dir after cmake-init

❯ cmake --preset=dev
Preset CMake variables:

  BUILD_MCSS_DOCS="ON"
  CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="Debug"
  CMAKE_CXX_CLANG_TIDY="clang-tidy;--header-filter=/Users/angel/Work/explore-cpp/idtaxes/*"
  CMAKE_CXX_CPPCHECK="cppcheck;--inline-suppr"
  CMAKE_CXX_EXTENSIONS="OFF"
  CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic -Wconversion -Wsign-conversion -Wcast-qual -Wshadow -Wformat=2 -Wundef -Werror=float-equal"
  CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD="20"
  CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED="ON"
  CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE="/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake"
  VCPKG_MANIFEST_FEATURES="test"
  idtaxes_DEVELOPER_MODE="ON"

CMake Error at /Applications/CMake.app/Contents/share/cmake-3.23/Modules/CMakeDetermineSystem.cmake:130 (message):
  Could not find toolchain file: /scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  CMakeLists.txt:9 (project)


CMake Error: CMake was unable to find a build program corresponding to "Unix Makefiles".  CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM is not set.  You probably need to select a different build tool.
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

Can anyone help me?

Thank you

This issue is just for tracking the progress of modules.

At the moment, no generally available compiler seems to properly support modules.

CMake is also designing its API to properly integrate C++ modules: https://discourse.cmake.org/t/api-design-c-modules-source-listings-and-interface-properties/5389

I realised while writing https://github.com/friendlyanon/cmake-init/issues/53#issuecomment-1094290250 that Conan dependencies are not cached in CI.

The vcpkg template uses the friendlyanon/setup-vcpkg action, which handles vcpkg's binary cache automatically.

I'm tagging this issue as a question, because maybe this action could be provided by the Conan team itself.

The generated build instructions and CI workflow aren't compatible with Conan v2.

Hoping @SpaceIm can chip in here with an example that shows how to use conanfile.txt with the new CMake generators.