[CMake] Best practices when using CMake 2.6 and Eclipse CDT 6.0

Romain CHANU romainchanu at gmail.com
Sun Oct 11 00:31:14 EDT 2009


Hi,

I have included Bill in this conversation.

Bill, I think you are currently working on the development of CMake, could
you answer our questions regarding the integration between Eclipse and CMake
(cf. emails below)?

Thank you.

Romain Chanu


2009/10/8 Romain CHANU <romainchanu at gmail.com>

> As I said in my previous post, we are loosing the version control
> information using the method 1 (CDT4 generator).
>
> I do not really know if it is an Eclipse problem or CMake problem. It would
> be nice to have some answers from the CMake developers.
>
> Anyone could give us some clues?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Romain
>
>
> 2009/10/8 Alexander Neundorf <a.neundorf-work at gmx.net>
>
>> On Wednesday 07 October 2009, Eric Noulard wrote:
>> > 2009/10/7 Romain CHANU <romainchanu at gmail.com>:
>> > > Yes I agree with you. It would be nice to hide these CMake generated
>> > > files (except those that are generated by your CMakeLists.txt and used
>> > > for compilation purpose, e.g. files generated by external command like
>> > > CodeSynthesis XSD).
>> > > One more thing, about the version control integration (SVN) in Eclipse
>> > > using an out-of-source build (cf .
>> > > http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/Eclipse_CDT4_Generator_Development), do I
>> still
>> > > need to create two different projects? One being my source code from
>> my
>> > > repository and the other one being my "build" directory?
>> > > Is there any fix regarding this issue in the incoming 2.8 version? Or
>> any
>> > > existing work-around?
>> >
>> > As far as I remember when I did look into the problem,
>> > the version control integration problem for out-of-source build is an
>> > **ECLIPSE** problem
>> > which cannot be solved on the CMake side unless you break the out of
>> > sorce rule and generate files in the source...
>> > see
>> >
>> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/Eclipse_CDT4_Generator_Development#Discussion_abo
>> >ut_Eclipse_CDT4_Generator_limitations and reference.
>>
>> Has anything changed in Eclipse in this regard ?
>> If not, could somebody try to become active in Eclipse and try to get this
>> fixed so that in future Eclipse versions this works ?
>> Is this an Eclipse or a CDT problem ?
>>
>> Alex
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