[CMake] Eclipse generator question

[Benjamin Shadwick]

FYI,

I opened a bug on CMake's tracker about updating the CMake generator since
its outputs are kind of garbage for modern CDT releases:
https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/issues/19107

Unfortunately the only feedback I got was that there is a push to remove
*all* generators in favor of forcing IDEs to use cmake-file-api. I opened a
bug on the Eclipse tracker asking if they knew about this push and whether
anyone was working on it from the CDT end, and they aren't but are
receptive: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=545905

None of that helps me, though, because I'm stuck on CMake 2.8.12.2 for now.

I think my main philosophical issue is that CMake lets you define a
project, and I'd like to see that definition reflected in Eclipse.
Unfortunately, both the CMake Eclipse generator and cmake4eclipse plugin
leave you with a filesystem-oriented view of the source instead of a CMake
project oriented view. You can get most of this from importing a CMake
project into something more primitive like NetBeans.

Maybe being tied to the filesystem view is an inherent limitation of
Eclipse (and/or CDT), or maybe it was at one time and neither CMake nor
cmake4eclipse are taking advantage of what modern Eclipse versions can do.

On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 1:32 PM Martin Weber <fifteenknots505 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, 3. April 2019, 18:44:04 CEST schrieb Benjamin Shadwick:
> > Update - I think I found a tolerable workaround:
> >
> > If I invoke cmake with -DCMAKE_ECLIPSE_GENERATE_LINKED_RESOURCES=OFF and
> > then inject a link to my include directory into the .project file, things
> > work a lot better:
>
> You (and other having problems with eclipse projects generated by cmake)
> might
> want to read these posts of the CDT project lead concerning cmake's CDT4
> generator [1] [2].
>
> Martin
>
> [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=530090#c3
> [2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=530090#c5
>
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