[cmake-developers] Using the internal Code::Blocks builder

[Benjamin Eikel]

Dear CMake developers,

I wanted to know if it is possible to let CMake generate a project that uses 
the internal build system of the Code::Blocks IDE.
My motivation for this was that a friend of mine, who works together with me 
on different projects that use CMake, uses Code::Blocks for years. He tried 
CMake's Code::Blocks generator with Makefiles several times and has never been 
satisfied (parallel builds not working, stopping of build not working, slow 
make on Windows etc.). He ended up creating a Code::Blocks project manually.
I have written a number of hacks that modify the existing Code::Blocks 
generator to generate a project that does not use the generated Makefile, but 
the build system of Code::Blocks instead. I do not intend to push these 
patches, they were only ment as a proof-of-concept implementation. With these 
patches applied I am able to build several of our projects (shared libraries, 
dependencies on external libraries, applications using them) with the 
generated Code::Blocks project.
My questions to you are:
1. Is the CMake community interested in a project generator for CMake that 
generates native Code::Blocks projects? If you say that this is something that 
you do not want to have, I will stop my work and give my friend a custom CMake 
build containing my hacks. If you are nothing loath to have such generator, I 
want to try to find a way to do it right and prepare a topic branch.
2. What would be the right way to write such a generator? I think modifying 
the cmExtraCodeBlocksGenerator class is not the right way. Maybe one would 
have to write a new subclass of cmGlobalGenerator?

Kind regards
Benjamin
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