Template For C Projects

This is a template for C++ projects. What you get:

• Library, executable and test code separated in distinct folders.
• Use of modern CMake for building and compiling.
• External libraries fetched by CMake or cloned by Git.
• Unit testing using Unity
• General purpose libraries:
  • log
  • argparse
• Continuous integration testing and coverage reports with Github Actions.
• Code documentation with Doxygen.
• Tooling: Clang-Format, Cmake-Format, Clang-tidy, Sanitizers

Structure

├── CMakeLists.txt
├── app
│   ├── CMakesLists.txt
│   └── main.cc
├── cmake
│   └── cmake modules
├── docs
│   ├── Doxyfile
│   └── html/
├── external
│   ├── CMakesLists.txt
│   ├── ...
├── src
│   ├── CMakesLists.txt
│   ├── foo/
│   └── bar/
└── tests
    ├── CMakeLists.txt
    └── main.c

Library code goes into src/, main program code in app/ and tests go in tests/.

Software Requirements

• CMake 3.21+
• GNU Makefile
• Doxygen
• Conan or VCPKG
• MSVC 2017 (or higher), G++9 (or higher), Clang++9 (or higher)
• Optional: Code Coverage (only on GNU|Clang): gcovr
• Optional: Makefile, Doxygen, Conan, VCPKG

Building

First, clone this repo and do the preliminary work:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/franneck94/CppProjectTemplate
make prepare

• App Executable

cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
cmake --build . --config Release --target main
cd app
./main

• Unit testing

cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ..
cmake --build . --config Debug --target unit_tests
cd tests
./unit_tests

• Documentation

cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ..
cmake --build . --config Debug --target docs

• Code Coverage (Unix only)

cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DENABLE_COVERAGE=ON ..
cmake --build . --config Debug --target coverage

For more info about CMake see here.