Welcome

copier-cpp-cmake is project template based on copier tool.

Goals and philosophy

• The main goal of this project is to provide an easy way to start with development of your new C++ project and focus on the problem you want to solve instead of project structure/code formatting/basic CI and other common "quality of life" issues.
• The secondary goal is to make this project as flexible as reasonable. Allowing people to use different tools as they usually have different needs. Supporting them in updating of their projects when new tools are available or preferred after initial creation during development process.
• The third important aspect is to provide good defaults for each choice user can make (default to well established tools) so that less experienced users can use them as good starting point in their C++ adventure.

What is not a goal of the project:

• Currently, it is not a goal to help you install/maintain all necessary tools on your machine. The project provides docker images for CI/CD which can be used during development - but taking care of having properly installed tools is your responsibility.

Quick start

WARNING

Currently, project is still in active development and until version 1.0.0 breaking changes may occur unexpectedly.

What you'll need

• Python version 3.7 or newer.
• copier version 6.0.0 or newer and copier-templates-extensions.
• cmake with reasonably new version (3.xx)
• conan for providing dependencies (vcpkg to be supported in future)
• compiler of your choice

python3 -m pip install cmake copier copier-templates-extensions conan

Create a project from template:

To start project generation simply use command:

copier git@github.com:MaciejPatro/copier-cpp-cmake.git .

Update already generated project:

To update project use command:

copier update <project_dir>

More information you can find on website: https://maciejpatro.github.io/copier-cpp-cmake/

Future development

• github-pages introduced
• support for vcpkg
• support for Windows OS
• choice of providing own namespace for the project instead of defaulting to project_slug
• automated deployment of docker images provided in this repository
• support for installation of exporting the software as packages (deb, rpm, tgz)
• support for conan package creation
• ci/cd improvements - deployment of tagged releases support
• clang-tidy support
• clang-format as part of CI (possibly)
• periodic updates for supported standards/compiler versions
• much more...