C++ Project Template

A simple template repository to start a new C++ project using CMake.

Click on the green Use this template button to get started.

If you are looking for more advanced features (such as Python bindings or integration with sites like ReadTheDocs, codecov, sonarcloud or PyPI) take a look at our C++ Project Cookiecutter

Contents

This example project contains the adder library, an application adder_app which uses this library, and a test-suite which tests the library.

Any pull-requests or commits to the repository trigger GitHub Actions, which will compile the code and run the tests.

Project structure:

• src
  • the adder library source code
  • this is where the meat of the project is: the implementation
• include/adder
  • the adder library headers
  • the public interface of the library
• app
  • the application which uses the adder library
• tests
  • the test code
  • each x.cpp file has a corresponding x_t.cpp file here with tests
• ext
  • external libraries, e.g. Catch2 testing framework
• .github/workflows/ci.yml
  • the GitHub Actions configuration

Compiling

To compile the project and run the tests:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
make
make test

Documentation

If you have Doxygen installed you can also build the documentation by enabling the BUILD_DOCS CMake option, and then running make doxygen:

cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_DOCS=ON
make doxygen

This will generate the documentation in the html folder.