A few standard CMake tricks: (click to expand)
+
+* Use `cmake --build build -v` to see the commands used to build the files.
+* Use `cmake build -LH` to list the CMake options with help.
+* Use `ccmake` if available to see a curses (terminal) gui, or `cmake-gui` for
+ a completely graphical interface (not present in the PyPI package).
+* Use `cmake --build build -j12` to build with 12 cores (for example).
+* Use `-G` and the name of a generator to use something different. `cmake
+ --help` lists the generators available.
+ - On Unix, setting `CMAKE_GENERATER=Ninja` in your environment will give
+ you automatic mulithreading on all your CMake projects!
+* Open the `CMakeLists.txt` with QtCreator to generate for that IDE.
+* You can use `-DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=ON` to generate the `.json` file
+ that some tools expect.
+
+
+
+
+To run the tests, you can "build" the check target:
+
+```bash
+cmake --build build --target check
+```
+
+`--target` can be spelled `-t` in CMake 3.15+. You can also run individual
+tests with these targets:
+
+* `pytest`: Python tests only, using the
+[pytest](https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/) framework
+* `cpptest`: C++ tests only
+* `test_cmake_build`: Install / subdirectory tests
+
+If you want to build just a subset of tests, use
+`-DPYBIND11_TEST_OVERRIDE="test_callbacks;test_pickling"`. If this is
+empty, all tests will be built. Tests are specified without an extension if they need both a .py and
+.cpp file.
+
+You may also pass flags to the `pytest` target by editing `tests/pytest.ini` or
+by using the `PYTEST_ADDOPTS` environment variable
+(see [`pytest` docs](https://docs.pytest.org/en/2.7.3/customize.html#adding-default-options)). As an example:
+
+```bash
+env PYTEST_ADDOPTS="--capture=no --exitfirst" \
+ cmake --build build --target pytest
+# Or using abbreviated flags
+env PYTEST_ADDOPTS="-s -x" cmake --build build --target pytest
+```
+
+### Formatting
+
+All formatting is handled by pre-commit.
+
+Install with brew (macOS) or pip (any OS):
+
+```bash
+# Any OS
+python3 -m pip install pre-commit
+
+# OR macOS with homebrew:
+brew install pre-commit
+```
+
+Then, you can run it on the items you've added to your staging area, or all
+files:
+
+```bash
+pre-commit run
+# OR
+pre-commit run --all-files
+```
+
+And, if you want to always use it, you can install it as a git hook (hence the
+name, pre-commit):
+
+```bash
+pre-commit install
+```
+
+### Clang-Format
+
+As of v2.6.2, pybind11 ships with a [`clang-format`][clang-format]
+configuration file at the top level of the repo (the filename is
+`.clang-format`). Currently, formatting is NOT applied automatically, but
+manually using `clang-format` for newly developed files is highly encouraged.
+To check if a file needs formatting:
+
+```bash
+clang-format -style=file --dry-run some.cpp
+```
+
+The output will show things to be fixed, if any. To actually format the file:
+
+```bash
+clang-format -style=file -i some.cpp
+```
+
+Note that the `-style-file` option searches the parent directories for the
+`.clang-format` file, i.e. the commands above can be run in any subdirectory
+of the pybind11 repo.
+
+### Clang-Tidy
+
+[`clang-tidy`][clang-tidy] performs deeper static code analyses and is
+more complex to run, compared to `clang-format`, but support for `clang-tidy`
+is built into the pybind11 CMake configuration. To run `clang-tidy`, the
+following recipe should work. Run the `docker` command from the top-level
+directory inside your pybind11 git clone. Files will be modified in place,
+so you can use git to monitor the changes.
+
+```bash
+docker run --rm -v $PWD:/mounted_pybind11 -it silkeh/clang:15-bullseye
+apt-get update && apt-get install -y git python3-dev python3-pytest
+cmake -S /mounted_pybind11/ -B build -DCMAKE_CXX_CLANG_TIDY="$(which clang-tidy);--use-color" -DDOWNLOAD_EIGEN=ON -DDOWNLOAD_CATCH=ON -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=17
+cmake --build build -j 2
+```
+
+You can add `--fix` to the options list if you want.
+
+### Include what you use
+
+To run include what you use, install (`brew install include-what-you-use` on
+macOS), then run:
+
+```bash
+cmake -S . -B build-iwyu -DCMAKE_CXX_INCLUDE_WHAT_YOU_USE=$(which include-what-you-use)
+cmake --build build
+```
+
+The report is sent to stderr; you can pipe it into a file if you wish.
+
+### Build recipes
+
+This builds with the Intel compiler (assuming it is in your path, along with a
+recent CMake and Python):
+
+```bash
+python3 -m venv venv
+. venv/bin/activate
+pip install pytest
+cmake -S . -B build-intel -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=$(which icpc) -DDOWNLOAD_CATCH=ON -DDOWNLOAD_EIGEN=ON -DPYBIND11_WERROR=ON
+```
+
+This will test the PGI compilers:
+
+```bash
+docker run --rm -it -v $PWD:/pybind11 nvcr.io/hpc/pgi-compilers:ce
+apt-get update && apt-get install -y python3-dev python3-pip python3-pytest
+wget -qO- "https://cmake.org/files/v3.18/cmake-3.18.2-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz" | tar --strip-components=1 -xz -C /usr/local
+cmake -S pybind11/ -B build
+cmake --build build
+```
+
+### Explanation of the SDist/wheel building design
+
+> These details below are _only_ for packaging the Python sources from git. The
+> SDists and wheels created do not have any extra requirements at all and are
+> completely normal.
+
+The main objective of the packaging system is to create SDists (Python's source
+distribution packages) and wheels (Python's binary distribution packages) that
+include everything that is needed to work with pybind11, and which can be
+installed without any additional dependencies. This is more complex than it
+appears: in order to support CMake as a first class language even when using
+the PyPI package, they must include the _generated_ CMake files (so as not to
+require CMake when installing the `pybind11` package itself). They should also
+provide the option to install to the "standard" location
+(`