CPPPC - C++ Project Configurator

CPPPC is a GUI tool designed to generate boilerplate projects for C++. It utilizes Python to generate a CMakeLists.txt file along with a directory structure. The primary goal of CPPPC is to be flexible in generating various types of C++ projects (Libraries, Executables) while remaining easy to extend.

Project Status

CPPPC is under active development, it is currently in a very early state.

CPPPC Latest release is v.0.2.0 - Library import update.

As of release v.0.2.0 it has the following features:

• Creates directories and files for a CMake project based on user provided configuration through GUI:
  • Specify CMake version
  • Set CMake project name, description, executable name
  • Set target directory
  • Set Some Target properties;
    C++ version, generation of Compile Commands, link what you use, include what you use and interprocedural optimization
  • Set Some Sanitizer options;
    Debug, SanitizeAddress,leak and Undefined, no omit frame ptr, memory track origins=2, recover adress, blacklist
  • Expose CMake variables to your C++ application
  • Adding libraries to your project
• Fetching libraries from GitHub to be imported as libraries. (If library uses CMake...)
• Parse CMake Libraries to collect Target names and components
• Persistent cache for configuration data (Per project, based on provided name, lib path and md5 hash of library source contents)

Demonstration

The gif above demonstrates the process of setting up a project that requires the SFML library through the graphical user interface (GUI).

Upcoming Features

CPPPC currently under development, upcoming features include:

• Fetching libraries from other services than GitHub to be imported as libraries.
• Generating IDE-specific files, such as workspace files for Visual Studio Code.
• Generate Cross-platform Library projects.
• Turn non-cmake libraries into basic CMake projects to easier be included in your project.
• MacOs support (Currently only tested on Linux and Windows).
• and more...

Precompiled binaries

The easiest way to run the application is with the precompiled binaries from the Releases page.

Note that you still need to have CMake and your compiler installed. (If you're on Windows, then you can either have Visual Studio with the C++ components installed or install their Build Tools for Visual Studio )

Alternatively, you can follow the steps below to run the sourcecode!

Prerequisites

If you're going to run CPPPC from source, then you must have the following dependencies installed:
(You can also check the requirements.txt...)

• cmake
  • Make sure that you have all dependencies your CMake generator requires.
• Compiler of your choice
• python
• requests
• PyQt5 (GUI library)

Getting Started

To use CPPPC, follow these steps:

1. Install the required prerequisites.

   Details of prerequisites installation can be found here

2. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/lr222gw/CPPPC.git

3. Navigate to the project directory:

   cd CPPPC

4. Run the CPPPC tool:

   python cpppc.py