[Ves] Building and Debugging with an IDE

[Carlos]

Hi,

 

My experience on this issue is the following:

 

·         Ves/Kiwi is my first approach to develop mobile apps, both for
Android an IOS, so I’m not an experienced mobile developer.

·         I have never used before Eclipse nor Xcode in Mac. I mainly use
Visual Studio.

·         I started as you compiling Kiwi for android in Windows using the
Developers guide.

·         Then I created an Eclipse project to modify the project. For this
I imported the Kiwi project for Android. I remember it was not too much
difficult.

·         Even I’m pretty sure it is possible to create an Eclipse project
for the VES library, I was not able to create it. I found a lot of problems
with the headers and libraries related with the ARM7.

·         In order to debug some modifications in the VES code, I used
visual studio to compile the Windows desktop version of Kiwi. At this point
the help given by Joachim Pouderoux in this list was crucial. You can check
previous emails.

·         For creating a VS project I just created a library project for
each library (Kiwi / VES / VesShaders) and I added all the .cpp files. I did
not remember big problems to solve the errors that appeared. In this way you
do not need the superbuild and you are able to debug your app.

 

Recently I started using Xcode in IOS and it is also quite easy to create a
project from the scratch and it has the advantage that the interaction with
the app is more natural that in the desktop version.

 

 

So I would say that in theory it is possible to create an eclipse project
for building the Ves libraries but medium / advanced android develop
knowledge using Eclipse is required. If not I would recommend you to compile
the Desktop version and check there your changes. Then you can use Eclipse
for the debugging the java code.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Carlos

 

De: ves-bounces at public.kitware.com [mailto:ves-bounces at public.kitware.com]
En nombre de Candemir Doger
Enviado el: miércoles, 26 de junio de 2013 14:58
Para: ves at public.kitware.com
Asunto: [Ves] Building and Debugging with an IDE

 

Hello all,

 

I have succesfully compiled VES and run the Kiwi application from Eclipse by
following the instructions here:
http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VES/Developers_Guide_(Windows)

 

However, I would like to create an IDE setup to rapidly make code changes in
kiwi and ves-android source code and debug these changes (if possible).
Thus, I tried to create Eclipse project files with CMake and I imported it.
However, there were problems during the build process. 

 

I will not mentioned about the problems I encounter during the Eclipse
import but I would like to ask some simple questions:

 

1- Would it be possible for me to debug the ves-android application from
Eclipse? e.g. running the Android app and putting a breakpoint in
ves-android source code to see when it's called.

 

2- Can I add the ves-android project(if I can add it to Eclipse) to the
android ndk project (the real android project) as a reference in Eclipse? So
when I make a change in the ves-android code the ndk project gets compiled
again?

 

Previously I worked with android ndk and created a good Eclipse setup with
autocompletion and auto-build  features but I am not sure if it is possible
with an additional project, in this case ves-android.

 

I am looking forward for some answers or at least someone can say it's not
possible and I can manually build the ves-code from command console and run
the android application from eclipse.

 

Thanks.

-Candemir

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