Lefticus - C++ Project Template

I have been slowly adding more stuff for my complete @royyandzakiy/cpp-project-template. Lately I’ve been focusing on adding things to do in the CI, and I was re-watching Jason’s video on HIS version of C++ project template.

Based on the video, here is a list of all the tools, libraries, and features that are used, added to, or used along with the cpp_starter_project:

Build & Configuration Tools:

• CMake
• CTest
• Conan (package manager)
• CCache

Code Quality & Formatting Tools:

• clang-format
• cmake-format
• clang-tidy
• CPPCheck

Compilers & Sanitizers:

• GCC / Clang / MSVC support
• Address Sanitizer
• Undefined Behavior Sanitizer
• Thread Sanitizer
• Fuzzing Sanitizer (libFuzzer from Clang/LLVM)

Libraries (managed via Conan):

• Catch2 (testing framework)
• docopt (command-line option parsing)
• fmt (formatting library, now partly in C++20)
• spdlog (fast logging)
• imgui-sfml (for IMGUI example)
• SFML (pulled in by imgui-sfml)
• SDL (for SDL example)

Documentation:

• Doxygen

Example GUI Libraries Shown:

• Qt
• FLTK
• GTKMM
• IMGUI
• NANA
• SDL

Editors/IDEs Mentioned:

• Neovim (with Neoformat plugin)

Other Features:

• Inter-procedural optimization (IPO) / Link Time Optimization (LTO)
• Precompiled headers (PCH)
• compile_commands.json generation (for clang tooling)
• Warnings as errors (-Werror / /WX)