# ============================================================================= # Configuration.cmake # # All output-path configuration lives here. Change a value here, or # override with -D=... at configure time, instead of hunting through # CMakeLists.txt/cmake/*.cmake for a hardcoded path. # # Everything this project generates lives under one OUT_DIR: # # out/ # build/ CMAKE_BINARY_DIR -- scripts/build.sh # defaults to configuring here (-B # out/build); compiled artifacts land # in out/build/ # and out/build/ # during normal day-to-day builds. # install//{bin,lib} what `cmake --install` / scripts/ # scripts/install.sh populates. # dist/ reserved for packaged/archived # output (e.g. a future CPack # integration) -- not populated by # this project yet, but the path is # configured and ready. # docs//html, docs/index.html generated Doxygen output # (cmake/Documentation.cmake). # # One thing lives outside OUT_DIR on purpose: .cache/tools/ (TOOLCACHE_DIR) # caches downloaded, pinned build tools (currently Ninja and Doxygen), kept # separate so a clean `rm -rf out/` doesn't force a re-download. # # .gitignore is kept in sync with the paths below automatically, every # configure -- see the bottom of this file. This file is the source of # truth; .gitignore (and anything else that needs these paths) should # never hardcode a copy of them. # # Included by CMakeLists.txt before any output-directory variable is used, # so every value here is available project-wide. # ============================================================================= include_guard(GLOBAL) set(OUT_DIR "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/out" CACHE PATH "Root directory for everything this project generates: build artifacts, install trees, docs, and reserved dist packaging output") set(DIST_OUTPUT_DIR "${OUT_DIR}/dist" CACHE PATH "Reserved for packaged/archived distribution output (e.g. a future CPack integration). Not populated by this project yet.") set(INSTALL_OUTPUT_DIR "${OUT_DIR}/install" CACHE PATH "Root of the cmake --install destination tree, one subdirectory per DIST_TARGET") set(DOCS_OUTPUT_DIR "${OUT_DIR}/docs" CACHE PATH "Root of generated Doxygen documentation, one subdirectory per module") set(COMPILE_COMMANDS_DESTINATION "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/compile_commands.json" CACHE FILEPATH "Where compile_commands.json is copied to after every build, for clangd/clang-tidy tooling (see CMakeLists.txt)") # Deliberately NOT under OUT_DIR: this caches downloaded, pinned build # tools (currently just Doxygen -- see cmake/Documentation.cmake), which # are machine-local and expensive to re-fetch, not build output. Keeping # it separate means a clean `rm -rf out/` (a normal "start fresh" gesture) # doesn't force a re-download. set(TOOLCACHE_DIR "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/.cache/tools" CACHE PATH "Where pinned build tools (currently Ninja and Doxygen) are cached, kept separate from OUT_DIR") # out/dist/ is reserved (see the header comment above) and nothing writes # to it yet, so it's created eagerly here -- otherwise it simply wouldn't # exist until something populates it, which could easily read as "this # was never wired up" rather than "intentionally reserved for later". file(MAKE_DIRECTORY "${DIST_OUTPUT_DIR}") # Subdirectory NAMES only (not full paths) for where compiled artifacts # land inside whatever the current build directory is (CMAKE_BINARY_DIR) -- # these apply correctly no matter where -B points, including if you build # outside out/build entirely. LIBRARY defaults to the same subdirectory as # RUNTIME because shared libraries need to sit next to the executables # that load them via the project's $ORIGIN-relative RPATH strategy (see # CMakeLists.txt). set(RUNTIME_OUTPUT_SUBDIR "bin" CACHE STRING "Build-dir subdirectory for runtime artifacts (executables, .dll, .so)") set(LIBRARY_OUTPUT_SUBDIR "bin" CACHE STRING "Build-dir subdirectory for shared-library artifacts") set(ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_SUBDIR "lib" CACHE STRING "Build-dir subdirectory for static/import-library artifacts (.a, .lib)") # ============================================================================= # .gitignore sync # # Keeps a marked block in .gitignore in sync with the actual, current # values of the path variables above -- every configure, automatically. # Nothing outside that block (e.g. the Visual Studio template this # project's .gitignore starts from) is ever touched. This is what makes # this file the real source of truth: change OUT_DIR (or override it with # -DOUT_DIR=...) and .gitignore updates on the next configure instead of # silently drifting out of sync with what actually gets generated. # # If .gitignore doesn't exist yet, it's created with just this block. If # it exists but has no markers yet, the block is appended. If the markers # are already there, only the content between them is replaced. The file # is only rewritten when the computed content actually differs, so a # normal reconfigure doesn't spuriously touch it (or its mtime). # # A path is only added if it resolves inside the repo (CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR) # -- e.g. an overridden TOOLCACHE_DIR pointing somewhere else entirely is # silently skipped, since .gitignore has nothing meaningful to say about # a location outside the repository it lives in. # ============================================================================= set(_pmn_gitignore_begin "# >>> Configuration.cmake generated paths -- BEGIN (do not edit by hand; edit Configuration.cmake and reconfigure) >>>") set(_pmn_gitignore_end "# <<< Configuration.cmake generated paths -- END <<<") function(_pmn_gitignore_relpath ABSOLUTE_VALUE OUT_VAR) file(RELATIVE_PATH _pmn_rel "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}" "${ABSOLUTE_VALUE}") if(_pmn_rel MATCHES "^\\.\\.") set(${OUT_VAR} "" PARENT_SCOPE) else() set(${OUT_VAR} "${_pmn_rel}" PARENT_SCOPE) endif() endfunction() set(_pmn_gitignore_entries "") foreach(_pmn_dir_var OUT_DIR DIST_OUTPUT_DIR INSTALL_OUTPUT_DIR DOCS_OUTPUT_DIR TOOLCACHE_DIR) _pmn_gitignore_relpath("${${_pmn_dir_var}}" _pmn_rel) if(_pmn_rel) list(APPEND _pmn_gitignore_entries "${_pmn_rel}/") endif() endforeach() _pmn_gitignore_relpath("${COMPILE_COMMANDS_DESTINATION}" _pmn_cc_rel) if(_pmn_cc_rel) list(APPEND _pmn_gitignore_entries "${_pmn_cc_rel}") endif() list(REMOVE_DUPLICATES _pmn_gitignore_entries) list(SORT _pmn_gitignore_entries) set(_pmn_gitignore_block_content "") foreach(_pmn_entry ${_pmn_gitignore_entries}) string(APPEND _pmn_gitignore_block_content "${_pmn_entry}\n") endforeach() set(_pmn_gitignore_path "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/.gitignore") set(_pmn_gitignore_new_block "${_pmn_gitignore_begin}\n${_pmn_gitignore_block_content}${_pmn_gitignore_end}") if(EXISTS "${_pmn_gitignore_path}") file(READ "${_pmn_gitignore_path}" _pmn_gitignore_content) else() set(_pmn_gitignore_content "") endif() string(FIND "${_pmn_gitignore_content}" "${_pmn_gitignore_begin}" _pmn_gitignore_begin_pos) string(FIND "${_pmn_gitignore_content}" "${_pmn_gitignore_end}" _pmn_gitignore_end_pos) if(_pmn_gitignore_begin_pos GREATER -1 AND _pmn_gitignore_end_pos GREATER -1 AND _pmn_gitignore_end_pos GREATER _pmn_gitignore_begin_pos) # Replace only the content between the existing markers. string(SUBSTRING "${_pmn_gitignore_content}" 0 ${_pmn_gitignore_begin_pos} _pmn_gitignore_before) string(LENGTH "${_pmn_gitignore_end}" _pmn_gitignore_end_marker_len) math(EXPR _pmn_gitignore_after_start "${_pmn_gitignore_end_pos} + ${_pmn_gitignore_end_marker_len}") string(SUBSTRING "${_pmn_gitignore_content}" ${_pmn_gitignore_after_start} -1 _pmn_gitignore_after) set(_pmn_gitignore_final "${_pmn_gitignore_before}${_pmn_gitignore_new_block}${_pmn_gitignore_after}") else() # No markers yet -- append (trimming trailing blank lines first so we # don't accumulate extra blank lines across repeated appends). string(REGEX REPLACE "\n+$" "" _pmn_gitignore_trimmed "${_pmn_gitignore_content}") if(_pmn_gitignore_trimmed STREQUAL "") set(_pmn_gitignore_final "${_pmn_gitignore_new_block}\n") else() set(_pmn_gitignore_final "${_pmn_gitignore_trimmed}\n\n${_pmn_gitignore_new_block}\n") endif() endif() if(NOT _pmn_gitignore_final STREQUAL _pmn_gitignore_content) file(WRITE "${_pmn_gitignore_path}" "${_pmn_gitignore_final}") endif()