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Regular Colors

Value	Color
\e[0;30m	Black
\e[0;31m	Red
\e[0;32m	Green
\e[0;33m	Yellow
\e[0;34m	Blue
\e[0;35m	Purple

Effective Modern CMake

Getting Started

For a brief user-level introduction to CMake, watch C++ Weekly, Episode 78, Intro to CMake by Jason Turner. LLVM’s CMake Primer provides a good high-level introduction to the CMake syntax. Go read it now.

After that, watch Mathieu Ropert’s CppCon 2017 talk Using Modern CMake Patterns to Enforce a Good Modular Design (slides). It provides a thorough explanation of what modern CMake is and why it is so much better than “old school” CMake. The modular design ideas in this talk are based on the book [Large-Scale C++ Software Design](https://www.amazon.de/Large-Scale-Soft

Orthodox C++

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To remove a submodule you need to:

Delete the relevant section from the .gitmodules file.
Stage the .gitmodules changes git add .gitmodules
Delete the relevant section from .git/config.
Run git rm --cached path_to_submodule (no trailing slash).
Run rm -rf .git/modules/path_to_submodule (no trailing slash).
Commit git commit -m "Removed submodule "
Delete the now untracked submodule files rm -rf path_to_submodule

	// In C, a void* can be implicitly cast to any other kind of pointer, while in C++ you need an explicit cast. In most
	// cases, the explicit cast works for both C and C++, but if we consider the case where we have nested structs, then
	// the way you refer to them differs between C and C++ (in C++, `parent_type::nested_type`, in C just `nested_type`).
	// In addition, with the automatic cast in C, it is possible to use unnamed nested structs and still dynamically
	// allocate arrays of that type - this would be desirable when the code is compiled from C++ as well.
	// This VOID_CAST macro allows for automatic cast from void* in C++. In C, it does nothing, but for C++ it uses a
	// simple template function to define a cast-to-anything operator.
	// Use like this:
	// struct {
	// struct {

	# References:
	# https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/command/add_custom_target.html
	# https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2015/11/21/cmake-dependencies-between-targets-and-files-and-custom-commands/
	# https://gist.github.com/socantre/7ee63133a0a3a08f3990
	# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24163778/how-to-add-custom-target-that-depends-on-make-install
	# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30719275/add-custom-command-is-not-generating-a-target
	# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26024235/how-to-call-a-cmake-function-from-add-custom-target-command
	# https://blog.csdn.net/gubenpeiyuan/article/details/51096777

	cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.10)