Make the Cmake files a Cmake library

[Amin Yahyaabadi]

Whenever I want to use this project, I have to copy a bunch of boilerplate Cmake code to different places, which is rather inconvenient and error-prone. It would be nice if the code can become a Cmake library to solve this issue of copying.

By library I mean something similar to ixm:
https://ixm.one/

This is all I need to install ixm:

include(FetchContent)
FetchContent_Declare(ixm URL https://get.ixm.one)
FetchContent_MakeAvailable(ixm)

[Jason Turner]

I had no idea that people did this.

[Amin Yahyaabadi]

Yeah. This is a cool idea! The files under the CMake folder can become general enough to be reusable this way. IXM support some interesting toolchains, which we can potentially use!

https://github.com/ixm-one/ixm/tree/main/Toolchains

[Amin Yahyaabadi]

I have started making the Cmake library reusable:
https://github.com/aminya/cmakelib

The Index.cmake file can be included, and then the top-level CmakeLists.txt would be much simpler.

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.15)

# Set the project name to your project name, my project isn't very descriptive
project(myproject CXX)

# Add cmakelib
include(FetchContent)
FetchContent_Declare(cmakelib URL https://github.com/aminya/cmakelib/archive/refs/heads/main.zip)
FetchContent_MakeAvailable(cmakelib)
include(${cmakelib_SOURCE_DIR}/Index.cmake)

# Initialize cmakelib
# uncomment the options to enable them
cmakelib(
      Enable_CACHE
      ENABLE_CONAN
      # WARNINGS_AS_ERRORS
      # ENABLE_CPPCHECK
      # ENABLE_CLANG_TIDY
      # ENABLE_INCLUDE_WHAT_YOU_USE
      # ENABLE_COVERAGE
      # ENABLE_PCH
      # ENABLE_DOXYGEN
      # ENABLE_IPO
      # ENABLE_USER_LINKER
      # ENABLE_BUILD_WITH_TIME_TRACE
      # ENABLE_UNITY
      # ENABLE_SANITIZER_ADDRESS
      # ENABLE_SANITIZER_LEAK
      # ENABLE_SANITIZER_UNDEFINED_BEHAVIOR
      # ENABLE_SANITIZER_THREAD
      # ENABLE_SANITIZER_MEMORY
)


# project_options is defined inside cmakelib
target_compile_features(project_options INTERFACE cxx_std_17)

# add src, tests, etc here:

@lefticus I would like to transfer that repository to this organization so we can work on it together. Can I get an invitation to the organization so I can transfer it?