CPTS-223-Examples

Compile in a terminal

All commands are supposed to be run in a Ubuntu terminal

1. Go to the example directory you want. For example, cd cmake-example
2. Create a directory for the build if you didn't do it before: mkdir build
3. Ask cmake to configure the project: cmake -B build -S . After this, you will see some cmake config files in the build folder.
4. Ask cmake to build the project: cmake --build build After this, you will see the executable program in the build folder
5. Run the executable program. For example, ./build/CPTS_223_CMake_Example

If anything strange happens during the compilation, you can simply delete the build folder and see whether the problem is gone: rm -r build

Compile in an IDE

Use an IDE such as CLion to open the example directory (the one contains the CMakeLists.txt) and run it in the IDE

Use GitHub Action to auto-compile your build

1. Open this file in this folder: github/workflows/cmake.yml and follow the example to write your own GitHub action
2. Click the "Action" tag on this GitHub page and see the result of your GitHub action
3. You can update the badge in this README file to show your Action status