To learn C++ and CMakeLists
References: [1] https://arne-mertz.de/2018/05/hello-cmake/ [2] To install MinGw and configure the computer to use it. http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started/ [3] Installing MinGw and configuring the system for MinGw https://www.rose-hulman.edu/class/csse/resources/MinGW/installation.htm [4] A convenient environment editor https://www.rapidee.com
We can install MinGw independently, or let it be installed with Qt. Mine is the second case. Ref [2] is a good start for using MinGw. If you install MinGW, don't change the proposed default installation path (C:\MinGW) [3]. Command line interpreter needs to know where to find MinGw. For that, we need to add below values to windows PATH environment variable: C:\Qt\Qt5.13.0\5.13.0\mingw73_64\bin
(For editing environment variables, I use Rapid Environment Editor [4]).
By double-click on CMake.bat file, we build the project. As the result, the file build/prog.exe will be generated. You can open command prompt in this folder and enter the command: ./prog.exe
The function will run and the message in it, "Hello World", will be printed.
CMake is a cross-platform, open-source build system.