[CMake] Eclipse CMake Generator - Pre-Alpha version

Alexander Neundorf a.neundorf-work at gmx.net
Tue Jul 31 10:07:07 EDT 2007


Hi,

On Tuesday 31 July 2007 09:51, you wrote:
...
> Great! If you personally think this is good and can review/apply the
> patches relatively quickly then that will work well for me. What I was
> worried about was that I open a feature request and, understandably
> so, it sits there to be taken care according to everyone's busy
> schedule...
>
> I sent the patch to the list last night, but it rejected the e-mail
> because it was too big... I'll now clean up the code according to the
> coding style and resend with cc to you. This time tared and zipped, so
> it shouldn't have a problem.

Thanks :-)

> Now, I want to open a Wiki entry on
> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Generator_Specific_Information for
> "Eclipse CDT Generator" stating that a generator for Eclipse CDT is in
> development with a link to a new page called "Eclipse CDT Generator
> Development" for a page that everyone interested in this development
> should watch to discuss it. How do I do this to create it in an
> appropriate place? Do I need to prefix the name to create it in a
> specific subdir for cmake:
>
> [[CMake:Eclipse CDT Generator Development]]
>
> or should I just create the link like:
>
> [[Eclipse CDT Generator Development]]

IMO this doesn't really matter.

...
> I did run into the following annoyance, but it is rather another
> topic. When I compile the CMake code in Eclipse using the cygwin
> tools, then the resulting Eclipse project files are broken. This is
> due to the fact that it creates the .project file with the cygwin
> cmake (posix paths) and the Eclipse is installed in a Windows
> environment un-aware of where /builds is...

So the easiest way to "solve" this problem would be to disable the Eclipse 
generator in cmake under Cygwin.

Alex


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