Components

A component encapsulates all code relating to a specific goal. Components act as individual compile targets. This allows CMake to efficiently parallelize the compilation and link stages. A component should include the minimum amount of dependencies. Circular dependencies should be avoided.

Core Component

Common interfaces can be used across the project and multiple components. These interfaces are defined in components/core. Core is the only component which does not follow the component pattern in its entirety. The only major difference between core and other components is the header prefix used is core/<sub_dir> instead of components/core/<sub_dir>.

See core documentation for more information.

Create a new component

To create a new component add a new folder under components/. The folder name should relate to the components implementation - see current components for inspiration. The next instructs are to be carried out inside the components/<component_name> folder.

Create a directory named include/components/<component_name>. This contains all public headers which other components will have access too
Create a directory named src. This contains all private headers and source files. Components will not be able to include these.
Create a directory named tests. This contains all test files for this component
Create a CMakeLists.txt

Add the Component Compile Target

Registering a component adds the vkb<component_name> compile target. This target is also linked as a dependency to vkbcomponents.

vkb__register_component(
    NAME <component_name>
    SRC
        src/<some_private_header>.hpp
        src/<some_source>.cpp
    LINK_LIBS
        <some_link_lib>
)

Add a Test

Registering a test adds the tests<test_name> compile target. This target is also linked as a dependency to vkbtests.

vkb__register_tests(
    NAME <test_name>
    SRC
        tests/<some_test>.test.cpp
    LINK_LIBS
        <some_link_libs>
)

Compile Components

To compile all components run cmake with --target vkb__components
To compile a specific component run cmake with --target vkb__<component_name>
To compile all tests run cmake with --target vkb__tests
To compile a specific test run cmake with --target tests__<test_name>.