Repository that follows the blog posts Introducing the "Let's Build Chuck Norris!" Project from Dimitri Merejkowsky :

“Let’s Build Chuck Norris!” is a series of blog posts aiming at exploring various topics about C++ and build systems, and providing an example of the Salami method described by Adi Shavit.

For this project I am using VS Code with the CMake Tools 1.6.0 extension from Microsoft

The Guide only uses ninja and cmake in the first blog post. In the build folder a default folder is used to configure cmake in. Cmake is configured by runnin cmake -GNinja ../.. from the folder called default. the cmake extension is also used to generate the compile_commands.json file, which is required by clangd to find libraries.

The right generator and build directory can be changed in the CMake Extensions in VSCode:

For the manual download, I am using an updated version of sqlite3 with the link https://www.sqlite.org/2021/sqlite-amalgamation-3350200.zip

with llvm-ar the f option is not available anymore

The sqlite3 dependency had to be build locally, because the clang package is not prebuilt. The default generator for cmake on Windows is "MinGW Makefiles". To use Ninja, the environment variable CONAN_CMAKE_GENERATOR can be used. This can be enabled for conan with the addition to %USERPROFILE%\.conan\profiles\default:

...
[env]
CONAN_CMAKE_GENERATOR=Ninja

on windows the build just works, because the sqlite3 is already built with all Options enabled. The generated DLL is missing all symbols to link. cmake has a macro that generates macros in a header file called chucknorris_Export.h in this case to mark certain functions as functions that should be exported.

The module that provides this macro can be included using the following lines:

include(GenerateExportHeader)
GENERATE_EXPORT_HEADER(chucknorris)

the header file is generated in the build/default folder, which can be included using $<BUILD_INTERFACE:${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}> in the include directories macro for the library.

VS Code also passed the option -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON to cmake to set the library as SHARED

The current build environment uses msvcrtd as standard library to use it in python as well, we need to add the option libraries=["msvcrtd"], to the set_source command in build_chucknorris.py