[cmake-developers] Extracting target metadata, IDE integration

[Peter Kümmel]

On 15.03.2015 16:42, Tobias Hunger wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> CMake does know all the headers or it could not decide which files
> need rebuilding.
>
> How would making cmake parse a file in the syntax of another build
> system help creator understand existing cmake projects?

The idea was that qtcreator then also could parse and change the
CMakeLists.txt file (like it is done with qbs files, I assume).

>
> This is not about extending cmake language: It makes cmake generate
> another description of the project in a format that IDEs can use, in
> addition to the description stored in the Makefiles (or whichever
> other build tool).
>
> Best Regards,
> Tobias
>