[cmake-developers] [CMake 0015298]: Generate Eclipse Workspace instead of Project

Mantis Bug Tracker mantis at public.kitware.com
Wed Dec 10 15:49:46 EST 2014


The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=15298 
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Reported By:                Gregory Kramida
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   15298
Category:                   CMake
Reproducibility:            N/A
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2014-12-10 15:49 EST
Last Modified:              2014-12-10 15:49 EST
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Summary:                    Generate Eclipse Workspace instead of Project
Description: 
CMake generates entire solutions for Visual Studio, with multiple targets
becoming separate projects. In Eclipse, a "Workspace" is equivalent to a Visual
Studio "Solution", within which you have multiple projects.

It's unclear to me why CMake by original design generates only a single project
for eclipse, not an entire workspace(=solution) with separate projects for each
target, which, in my view, would be much more intuitive and would make separate
target compilation much simpler from the get-go. 

I thought it prudent to bring this issue / feature request to the table for
discussion.

In my view, the right solution would be to deprecate the current mode of
"single-project" generation (yet leave it available as a legacy option for
backward-compatibility, perhaps simply as a separate generator entry), while
changing the default behavior to generating an entire eclipse Workspace.
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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2014-12-10 15:49 Gregory KramidaNew Issue                                    
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