• https://cliutils.gitlab.io/modern-cmake/chapters/basics/structure.html ← good example layout

Sample structure layout

• project
  • bin
    • utils
    • tests
      • hello_world
  • build
  • include
  • lib

1. make a folder for your project and here is the top layer CMakeLists.txt file

   project(lvis24)
   cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.0)
   
   add_subdirectory( bin )

2. create a .gitignore to exclude build folder so repos/project/.gitignore should contain this

   # ignore the build directory
   build/*

3. CMakeLists.txt in bin

   add_subdirectory( tests )

4. CMakeLists.txt in tests

   add_subdirectory( hello_world )

Now you can compile it all by

1. going to ~/project/build
2. cmake ..
3. build