[cmake-developers] CodeLite generator

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Thursday 02 February 2012, Jim Goodnow II wrote:
> On 2/2/2012 5:35 AM, Brad King wrote:
> > On 2/1/2012 5:51 PM, Jim Goodnow II wrote:
> >> I am working on a CodeLite generator for CMake.
> > 
> > Great!  I assume you mean http://www.codelite.org/ ?
> 
> Yes, the open source IDE.
> 
> > > Is there a set of tests that should be run
> > 
> > CMake comes with an extensive test suite that covers
> > the major interfaces plus many corner cases that have
> > been encountered and fixed over the years.  If you build
> > CMake from source with the Makefile generator you can run
> > 
> >   bin/ctest
> > 
> > from the top of the build tree to execute all the tests.
> > We expect them to all pass for a new generator.  They are
> > contained in the Tests/ subdirectory.
> 
> Great! Just what I was looking for.
> 
> > Once the feature is working we'd like to have a nightly
> > 
> > build submitted to our testing dashboard:
> >   http://www.cdash.org/CDash/index.php?project=CMake
> > 
> > to ensure that it keeps working.
> 
> No problem. I need to make a version of CodeLite that runs without the
> GUI to be able to run the configuration and ctest. At the moment, I run
> -G "Unix Makefiles" and then edit the cache file to change the generator
> to CodeLite and then rerun with -G CodeLite to get around the
> configuration issues. I've been able to build CMake and Clang with only
> a few tweaks. I'll keep you posted and let you know if I have any
> questions.

There is a ticket for this in the bug tracker, it also has some patches 
attached, but the author didn't respond anymore:
http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=9901
Maybe this helps a bit.

Alex