[cmake-developers] Eclipse CDT Managed build

Ben Boeckel ben.boeckel at kitware.com
Wed Jan 25 09:43:08 EST 2017


On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 14:31:32 +0000, Bøe, Sebastian wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone has given thought to if
> it is feasible to have generator support for Eclipse CDT
> Managed builds?

It would likely be possible, but I don't know of any work towards this
goal.

> My motivation for managed build's instead of external Makefile
> builds, is that after CMake generation the project can be
> configured through the IDE UI. Which is a useful property in an
> SDK context.

This could be a problem though. Are the files that the IDE edits
separate from the ones that CMake generates? If not, how would CMake
know not to clobber the edited parts of the files it does generate?

--Ben


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