[CMake] cmake support Eclipse

Brandon Van Every bvanevery at gmail.com
Tue Jul 31 10:28:31 EDT 2007


On 7/31/07, Eric Noulard <eric.noulard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/7/31, Brandon Van Every <bvanevery at gmail.com>:
>
> > and CMake
> > doesn't figure out how to do Java, then CMake will lose in the Eclipse world.
>
> Not so sure, even if I'm no eclipse expert.
> If CMake is able to generate Eclipse project files and/or with
> eventual Ant build files then I'm pretty sure CMake will get in the Eclipse
> world very soon.

Oh come on, you think anyone's going to bother to support such major
tasks if CMake doesn't speak Java reasonably well?  Getting external
Makefiles to work is easy by comparison to those.

> I think you underestimate what Ant
> and the wealth of optional tasks are able to do, I suggest you go
> to http://ant.apache.org/manual/ and browse tasks.
> You'll see that high level ant tasks enables you to do ftp, ssh, scp,
> cvs, subversion, rpm building in a easy way.
> As far as I know CMake does not have those capabilities.

ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every


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