Example of C++ project skeleton with Meson Build and Catch.

This project consists of:

• a library (let's name it luuid)
• an executable uuidgen using that luuid
• unit test executable for luuid and using Catch framework

This project was created as learning example for article: Choosing C++ stack

Catch vs Doctest (2 branches)

Both test frameworks are quite similar, you can check differencies here: https://github.com/onqtam/doctest/blob/master/doc/markdown/faq.md#how-is-doctest-different-from-catch

I've created project using both frameworks you can find them in corresponding branches: doctest branch and catch branch.

For now I will merge doctest branch to master, both are quite similar, but doctest is supposed to be lighter and faster.

How to build the example

meson build .
cd build
ninja
ninja test # to run unit tests

How to test

ninja test

How to install

In default system directory

ninja install

You can run it just with command uuidgen.

In specific directory, e.g: ./install

DESTDIR=./install ninja install

Running uuidgen is a little bit more difficult in this case because the installation directory might not belong to library path (LD_LIBRARY_PATH).

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:./install/usr/local/lib
./install/usr/local/bin/uuidgen #path to installed binary