How to Properly Setup C++ Projects

📚 CHAPTERS
0:00 - C++ project architecture
5:10 - My C++ project template
10:55 - Applying this setup to an existing project
27:00 - Problems
29:44 - Regret

💰 Links to stuff I use:

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[TheCherno]

Thanks for watching! Hope you enjoyed the video!

[lukeburton]

This video fills a knowledge gap that I think a lot of beginner to intermediate C++ developers likely have. Thanks Yan!

[MahmdMhanad]

This 2000 game engine review turns out to be supper useful, thanks a lot for both of you guys

[onejdc]

If you want to show us how you'd refactor his code from a maintainability standpoint into a proper setup, I think that would be extremely useful. Too often we focus on refactor for performance, but in this case, just not having to edit two files for one change is a great lesson to impart.

[GonziHere]

Easily one of your best videos to date. Thanks.

[ragnarhammarqvist]

I would prefere "Modern CMake" over premake and have conan or vcpkg to manage dependencies.

[David-ocyt]

I designed something like this for my personal projects. No specific core library, but several other libraries which can be picked from and offer a little more freedom to minimize app footprints. Separating apps and libraries into corresponding subdirectories can help with organization and reusability

[SownJevan]

I was actually waiting for this for the longest time. Thanks Yan.

[amritraj]

We all waiting for your video, Love the way you teach us ❤

[canalbomon]

From what I understand, CMake also generates projects for Visual Studio. In this case, it's cross-platform, creating a Makefile on Unix and a Visual Studio project on Windows

[theepicman]

This might possibly be the most needed video for C++ developers.

[palrevesz]

I love the approach; I will definitely try it out! Thank you! 👍😉

[niteshpatel]

Love this guy gives so much accurate details.

[blamechickenman]

elite video, this type of stuff is really good for beginners

[dmytroboiko]

1. Thanks for this video. It makes a lot of sense and a good example for newbies on how to structure a C++ project properly.
2. At this point, on Dec 31 of 2023, this is the last video in the "C++" playlist. And I watched every single video from it. Which took 23+ hours in total + half of it for writing down notes.
THANK YOU for making this whole YouTube-based course.
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[avtem]

Thank you so much for making this video!

[PauGuillamon]

Nice to see a video about project setup. But please people, prefer out-of-source builds! CMake supports and recommends it, I hope Premake also. While having your generated project files sitting next to your code sounds like a good idea, it will bring more problems than solutions in the future. Build into a separate folder, you can even have different folders for different build types or experiments. Deleting a single folder ensures a clean state of the project.
in CMake:
git clone <your_repo> <folder>
cd <folder>
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build .

[ArenGorman]

OMG, this is something I've been looking for a long time, and no one had this as a whole guide showing best practices. Thank you so much!

[johnmanardiii]

Not sure why, but I have always had a hard time with this. Thank you!

[realishak]

finally I waited so long for this vid!!