[CMake] Segger Embedded Studio generator

[Kyle Edwards]

On Tue, 2019-07-30 at 15:39 +1000, Dushara Jayasinghe wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm working on an embedded project where I'd like to use use cmake
> as the build system. At the same time, the Segger Embedded Studio IDE
> seems to have decent support for the target I'm working on (nice
> integration with toolchains as well as the JLink debugger). The
> downside with this tool is, it has its own XML based project format
> and
> doesn't support CMake or even Makefile based projects. So I was
> wondering
> if there's generator out there for this IDE?
> 
> If not, I was thinking of creating a target rule to generate "an 
> externally built project" referring to the binary generated by Ninja.
> Is this a good way to go about it?
> 
> According to the seven year old SO answer here (https://stackoverflow
> .com/a/8314627),
> custom generators require changing the cmake sources. Is this still
> the case?

Yes, new generators have to be written in CMake's C++ code.

Kyle