dotfiles/lang/cpp

Working with C++

Contents

• General C++ Commands & Usage
• Working with Objective-C
• Useful Links

Working with CMake

To uninstall remove binaries that have been installed from a CMake process use the install_mainfest.txt generated from running make install along with xargs to remove the binaries that were installed. learn more

cat install_manifest.txt | xargs rm
cat install_manifest.txt | xargs -L1 dirname | xargs rmdir -p

working with cmake / useful links

https://discourse.cmake.org/t/how-to-determine-which-architectures-are-available-apple-m1/2401/12 https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/building-a-universal-macos-binary (apple univeral binaries, amd64 aarch64)

General C++ Commands & Usage

To compile a C++ ie. C plus plus program from a command line interface, ie. CLI

The below command implies that a C++ compiler is installed on the local system.

g++ /path/to/mr-fancy-42.cpp -o /path/to/mr-fancy-42

Working with Objective-C

On macos to list available SDKs available to Xcode

xcodebuild -showsdks

Useful Links

• github gist / effective modern cmake
• github / cmake examples
• cgold / the hitchhicker's guide to cmake
• blog paul smith, getting started with llvm backend, C api
• cyberciti.biz How To Compile And Run a C/C++ Code In Linux

TODOs

• review hackaday article about valgrind