3.18.1. Globals

Even if toolchain is originally designed to help with cross-compiling and usually containing fancy variables like CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME or CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH in practice it can help you with holding compiler settings that logically doesn’t belong to some particular local CMakeLists.txt but rather should be shared across various projects.

• 3.18.1.1. C++ standard
  • 3.18.1.1.1. Example
  • 3.18.1.1.2. Bad
  • 3.18.1.1.3. Toolchain
  • 3.18.1.1.4. try_compile
  • 3.18.1.1.5. Defaults
  • 3.18.1.1.6. Scalability
  • 3.18.1.1.7. Summary