[CMake] good open source IDE

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Sunday 01 July 2007 20:29, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 01.07.07 19:47:57, Brandon Van Every wrote:
> > - maybe setting up Eclipse is the ticket, based on recent posts, but
> > I'm reticent.  Not sure I want to deal with a learning curve there,
> > but maybe I should try.
>
> The CDT Project claims various fixes to their C++ indexer in, which is one
> of the main problems in CDT
>
> > - I'm wondering if there are IDEs in the KDE universe that play well
> > with CMake and external makefiles?  Dumping Windows in favor of Linux
> > is a viable option, if there's an IDE in KDE-land that's "worth it."
>
> I was about to turn away from the post as it seemed you wanted to work
> on windows until I saw this. Well I'm a bit biased (because I'm hacking
> on it), but IMHO KDevelop is one of the best open-source IDE's and it
> has a pretty Ok custom-makefile project support. Basically it runs make
> in a project of your choice and you have to manage the CMakeLists.txt.

Yes, run cmake -GKDevelop3 ... and you get a kdevelop project for each 
PROJECT() in the cmake files.

> Its the application that all KDevelop and at least 1 Quanta hacker use
> to work on the KDE4 (KDE4 uses CMake as buildsystem) version of KDevelop
> (which will run natively on win32).

I use it every day, mainly for non-KDE apps.

Alex