CppProjectTemplate is a C++ project template for use in creating new command-line utility projects using PuppetLabs' shared libraries.

You will need to install Boost for program_options and to use many of the libraries in Leatherman.

This is most simply accomplished with Hub. The following commands will create a new GitHub project based on this template named new-project under the puppetlabs organization. Use Hub's -p option to create a private repo.

hub clone --depth 1 --origin source puppetlabs/cpp-project-template new-project
cd new-project
hub create puppetlabs/new-project [-p]

Finally update the project() name in CMakeLists.txt.

This template is a fully functional example, and can be built with

git submodule update --init
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make -j

CMake will generate source files from template files based on the project declared in CMakeLists.txt. For cpp-project-template, git ignores the generated files. For your own project, you can check those files in, and eventually remove the template files and generation logic from CMake as you develop your project (look for the REMOVE string in CMakeLists.txt files).

Tests can be run with make test, and the example tool can be run with bin/cpp_project_template.