[CMake] New Eclipse/Cmake Tutorial.. With Pictures

[Mike Jackson]

On 7/8/07, Trevor Kellaway <tkellaway at asl-electronics.co.uk> wrote:
> Mike,
>
> > You are correct in the sense that an external build is not
> > _technically_ required because make should pick up the
> > changes to the CMakeLists.txt file and rerun cmake, then make.
>
> Absolutely, I think it is important to emphasise this point, as most of
> the CMake newbies I've dealt with don't realise this, hence it would be
> good to explain when/why you need the external tool.
>
> >    What happens (probably because I am not using CMake completely
> > correctly) is that sometimes I want to blow away the "Build"
> > directory entirely (CVS operations, cleaning the build out,
> > etc, etc) and then invoke the initial cmake from Eclipse.
>
> Exactly, nothing wrong with this approach, I also tend to regularly do
> this after making major edits to CMakeLists.txt to check I can build OK
> from a totally empty build tree.
>
>
> > On a slightly similar topic I tried the Eclipse + CDT + MinGW
> > that Doug Schaefer put together for windows. The first
> > glaring omission was the CVS plugin that usually ships with
> > Eclipse. The other "omission"
> > was the CMakeEd plugin for Eclipse. Other than that the
> > eclipse distro looks pretty good.
>
> Also Subclipse, an add-in for Subversion?
>
> FYI, my team are using CMake, Eclipse+CDT+MinGW under Windows, but cross
> compiling for embedded system processors as well as the PC.
>
>  - TrevK

I have made the suggested changes to the Cmake:Eclipse wiki entry.
Take a look and let me know.

I use Eclipse CDT on OS X because the code completion is actually
better than Xcode for C++ development.

-- 
Mike Jackson
imikejackson _at_ gee-mail dot com