[CMake] Trouble with CMake + Eclipse + SVN/CVS

[Mike Jackson]

I am just going to chime in again with my "it is good enough" setup.  
While all the kinks in the CDT generator get worked out you can  
"STILL" use the normal Makefiles generator  (Mingw for Windows) and  
tell Eclipse that you have a "Makefile" based project. If you set you  
global preferences in Eclipse to always setup a Makefile based  
project with a build command of "make -C ${project_loc}/Build" and  
you bootstrap the process by creating the "Build" directory and then  
running cmake from that directory at least ONCE, then Eclipse seems  
just fine.
    This seems like a lot of work but literally only takes a minute  
to get a new project going, even ones I check out from CVS/SVN. Until  
the CDT project generator is stable and works 100% of the time I'll  
stick with this process. If you have time to work on all these issues  
then great, I look forward to testing your changes sometime.  Until  
then, Eclipse + Makefies works just dandy.

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


On Oct 17, 2007, at 3:30 PM, Eric Noulard wrote:

> 2007/10/17, a.neundorf-work at gmx.net <a.neundorf-work at gmx.net>:
>> On Wednesday 17 October 2007 20:46, Miguel A. Figueroa-Villanueva  
>> wrote:
>>> On 10/17/07, Eric Noulard wrote:
>>>> 2007/10/17, Pau Garcia i Quiles:
>>>> I welcome your patch and will be pleased to give it a try.
>>>
>>> Obviously, the help in developing and testing is appreciated, but  
>>> for
>>> the particular problem in question the patch is required for the
>>> Eclipse plugin.
>
> This is true BUT have a look at the discussion on the cdt-dev mailing
> list and you'll see that it may not be as easy as it seems....
>
> At lea
>
>>> There are a few things that need to be worked on in
>>> the generator that can be of great help, but I'm not sure that
>>> .project/.cproject in the source directory is the right solution.  
>>> More
>>> below...
>
>
>>>
>>>> 2007/10/17, Mike Jackson:
>>>>> I agree that there are some conflicting philosophies here. I am  
>>>>> a bit
>>>>> more practical about this. I just need to get my work done.
>>>>
>>>> I agree with that too.
>>>> I'm pretty sure it's a very good point for CMake to smoothly
>>>> support a great CDT4 generator.
>>>>
>>>> My comment was about the fact that the buggy behavior
>>>> of the CDT4 Generator for CVS enabled project should
>>>> not be seen as CDT4 generator's fault.
>>>
>>> Exactly, the bug is in the Eclipse plugin... CMake is just too
>>> powerful for it ;)
>>>
>>>> I am ok with the fact that CDT4 generator should
>>>> put it's (.project/.cproject) ouput inside source tree.
>>>
>>> I'm certainly not, but I'm only the author of the CDT4 generator  
>>> not a
>>> CMake developer ;)
>>
>> I can assure you that the cmake developers agree with you, cmake  
>> must not
>> create files in the source tree when building out-of-source.
>>
>> Wasn't there a way to get the cvs/svn stuff working with the eclipse
>> generator ?
>> E.g. by setting up a project in eclipse for the cvs/svn sources  
>> and then
>> additionally loading the cmake generated out-of-source eclipse  
>> project ?
>>
>> I think a good thing would be to document in the cmake wiki how to  
>> set this up
>> with the cmake generator.
>>
>> Alex
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