The below are instructions for setting up vcpkg in a CMake based C++ project. I’ve done this enough times to warrant a post on this site, that I can look up quickly instead of having to load up my notes app. Steps 1 – Create a folder named ThirdParty, if it doesn’t already exist. 2 … Read more
I’ve used conan and vcpkg with varying levels of success. Recently, I came across CPM.cmake and it works quite well with the projects I have used it in. For getting CPM.cmake in your own CMake project, you have to download the CPM.cmake code: The above code will download the CMake module and after that, you … Read more
This is just a sample of how to create pages in Evernote using AppleScript. Portions of AppleScript code were borrowed from posts on http://veritrope.com, thanks to them for that help!
Here’s an example CMakeLists.txt, where I set up a unit test target, using the GTest framework: The above should get you going with unit testing, as long as CMake can find the GTest frameworks on your computer. If you need to point CMake to another directory for the GoogleTest, GTest, stuff, you can add the … Read more
I used Xcode and loved the static analyzer. Then I switched to Visual Studio Code to do my C++ programming and wanted the static analysis done on my own code. To do this with the LLVM tools, you use the tool scan-build. You have to call that CLI first before cmake, and you should use … Read more
Once. Only once have I done this. I had to traverse a std::vector in reverse, and at some point, I had to call std::erase. I thought, “Ok, this should work” and instead, something bad happened. I little digging around, and a stackoverflow.com answer later, I saw an answer that left me scratching my head. The … Read more
I’m quite fascinated with the image that the Mandelbrot Set produces, but admittedly, I didn’t understand how to implement the function from the description on Wikipedia. Thankfully, there are 2 really good videos that give an overview and an in depth explanation of the function, which you can watch at: Mandelbrot back to basics: https://youtu.be/FFftmWSzgmk … Read more
Another way to increment an iterator, and preferred if you’re using std::move in your code, is to use std::next over ++. Here’s an example: Now, since we are not modifying anything in our string, we could also use const iterators, simply replacing begin and end with cbegin and cend : Languages:C++11, C++17 Refs: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/iterator/next https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/iterator/begin
This is a compile time utility, which replaces macros like FILE and LINE. I’m partial to using functions over macros, and this compile time utility looks nice: This is weak example of what you can do with the above class, but you get the idea.
More specially, a file path where we are trying to remove .. and . So, if you have “projects/vectorization/../gitstuff/./../../something/index.html” canonicalizing the string would reduce it to “something/index.html” We have a couple of options to do this. Option 1 – use std::filesystem Since C++17, you can take a path, and canonicalize it using std::filesystem::canonical. For paths … Read more