[CMake] Eclipse CMake Generator - Pre-Alpha version

[Mike Jackson]

Eclipse CDT only supports MinGW on Windows so the fact that it is  
broken for Cygwin is no surprise. CDT does NOT support nmake at this  
time because there would be no way to debug the code after it was  
compiled. There was discussion about this on the CDT newsgroup  
(nntp://news.eclipse.org on the eclipse.tools.cdt newsgroup). http:// 
dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.tools.cdt/msg13757.html

So I would guess that MS tool chain support would probably never be  
properly supported. This should not stop you from having cmake create  
nmake files and having CDT call nmake on your files. That _might_  
work.. Never tried it.

-- 
Mike Jackson   Senior Research Engineer
Innovative Management & Technology Services


On Jul 31, 2007, at 9:51 AM, Miguel A. Figueroa-Villanueva wrote:

> I did run into the following annoyance, but it is rather another
> topic. When I compile the CMake code in Eclipse using the cygwin
> tools, then the resulting Eclipse project files are broken. This is
> due to the fact that it creates the .project file with the cygwin
> cmake (posix paths) and the Eclipse is installed in a Windows
> environment un-aware of where /builds is...
>
> If I compile CMake with the VS toolchain (same would probably be true
> for MinGW tools) and create the "Eclipse - Unix Makefiles" then there
> are no problems with using the files with the cygwin tools.
>
> But of course all of this has to do with why cmake cygwin can't
> generate VS projects, but windows cmake can generate "Unix Makefiles"
> for cygwin...