Getting ready

In this recipe, we will start out with an example in C++, and later we will demonstrate a Fortran example and attempt to refactor and simplify the CMake code.

Let us consider the following hello-world.cpp source code:

#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>

std::string say_hello() {
#ifdef IS_INTEL_CXX_COMPILER
  // only compiled when Intel compiler is selected
  // such compiler will not compile the other branches
  return std::string("Hello Intel compiler!");
#elif IS_GNU_CXX_COMPILER
  // only compiled when GNU compiler is selected
  // such compiler will not compile the other branches
  return std::string("Hello GNU compiler!");
#elif IS_PGI_CXX_COMPILER
  // etc.
  return std::string("Hello PGI compiler!");
#elif IS_XL_CXX_COMPILER
  return std::string("Hello XL compiler!");
#else
  return std::string("Hello unknown compiler - have we met before?");
#endif
}

int main() {
  std::cout << say_hello() << std::endl;
  std::cout << "compiler name is " COMPILER_NAME << std::endl;
  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

We will also use a corresponding Fortran example (hello-world.F90):

program hello
  
  implicit none

#ifdef IS_Intel_FORTRAN_COMPILER
  print *, 'Hello Intel compiler!'
#elif IS_GNU_FORTRAN_COMPILER
  print *, 'Hello GNU compiler!'
#elif IS_PGI_FORTRAN_COMPILER
  print *, 'Hello PGI compiler!'
#elif IS_XL_FORTRAN_COMPILER
  print *, 'Hello XL compiler!'
#else
  print *, 'Hello unknown compiler - have we met before?'
#endif

end program