[CMake] Displaying sub projects in Eclipse

[Michael Jackson]

On Aug 5, 2009, at 5:05 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote:

> On Monday 03 August 2009, Dim wrote:
>> Hi group,
>>
>> I'm using cmake 2.6.4 for cross platform development in Windows and  
>> Linux.
>>
>> On Windows we're using Visual Studio 9 and on Linux Eclipse with  
>> CDT (4 or
>> 5 - still not decided).
>>
>> The code have a lot of projects and they're nicely presented in  
>> Visual
>> Studio.
>> While I import project to Eclipse and point it to the root of  
>> source tree
>> only project Project-DEBUG at xxx is presented, while sub projects are
>> missing.
>>
>> Is it by design?
>> Is cmake keyword project() is relevant for Visual Studio
>> generator only?
>
> Maybe it's also used by the Xcode generator, not sure. At least it is
> currently not used by the Eclipse generator.
> Feel free to enter a feature request in the cmake bugtracker.  
> Ideally with a
> patch already attached :-)
>
> Alex
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I don't think Eclipse has the idea of subprojects. It (CDT) has the  
notion of a workspace and the workspace has projects which is close to  
what you want but not quite there unless someone wants to write  
another CDT generator where instead of a CDT project you create a CDT  
workspace from the project. For large projects like ParaView, VTK,  
ITK, Boost this might actually be pretty nice.

Just my 2 cents.
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Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
BlueQuartz Software                    www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer                  Dayton, Ohio