Installation

How to install VCPKG

Official Link: https://vcpkg.io/en/index.html

cd external
git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git
.\vcpkg\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat # windows
./vcpkg/bootstrap-vcpkg.sh # Unix

How to install the Conan Package Manager

Official installation guide is here.

The conan database is here.

How to install Google Test on ubuntu

for gtest installation : https://gist.github.com/Cartexius/4c437c084d6e388288201aadf9c8cdd5?permalink_comment_id=2822039#gistcomment-2822039

sudo apt-get install libgtest-dev
cd /usr/src/googletest/googletest
sudo mkdir build
cd build
sudo cmake ..
sudo make
sudo cp lib/libgtest* /usr/lib/
cd ..
sudo rm -rf build

Then do:

sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib/googletest
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libgtest.a /usr/local/lib/googletest/libgtest.a
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libgtest_main.a /usr/local/lib/googletest/libgtest_main.a

Installation Steps

1. Install Python (3.7+)
2. Type pip install --user -U conan into the terminal
   1. Unix: Append conan to the PATH by: source ~/.profile
3. Run the conan command: conan
4. conan profile detect –force
5. conan profile path default

Formatter and Static Analyzer

Tooling

Clang-Format: Formatting tool for your C/C++ code:

• Documentation for Clang-Format: Link

Clang-Tidy: Static linting tool for your C/C++ code:

• Documentation for Clang-Tidy: Link

Cmake-Format:

pip install cmake-format # python 3.7+

Coverage Tools

sudo apt-get install gcovr
pip install -U gcovr

Install Clang Tools

It's included in the LLVM toolchain, but also installable by apt, brew, winget etc.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/releases/tag/llvmorg-16.0.0