Generating Package Version Files

Let's learn about utility modules that generate the package's version files.

We'll cover the following

Package version and CMakePackageConfigHelpers utility module
- Keyword COMPATIBILITY
Example
Try it yourself

Interestingly, CMakePackageConfigHelpers also provides a helper command to generate package's version files. Let's take a look.

As our package grows, it will slowly gain new features, old ones will be marked as deprecated, and eventually be removed. It's important to keep track of these modifications in a changelog that's available to developers that use our package. When a specific feature is needed, a developer can find the lowest version that supports it and use it as an argument to find_package(), like so:

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Introduction to the Course

First Steps with CMake

The CMake Language

Setting Up Our First CMake Project

Working with Targets

Compiling C++ Sources with CMake

Linking with CMake

Modern CMake for C++ Exam 1

Managing Dependencies with CMake

Testing Frameworks

Program Analysis Tools

Generating Documentation

Installing and Packaging

Creating Our Professional Project

Conclusion

Appendix

Generating Package Version Files