[cmake-developers] Eclipse CDT Managed build

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Wed Jan 25 15:24:23 EST 2017


On 2017 M01 25, Wed 11:38:06 CET Brad King wrote:
> On 01/25/2017 11:27 AM, Ben Boeckel wrote:
> > not be trivial to get CMake to generate relocatable builds.
> 
> This is also an explicit non-goal of CMake.
> 
> >> after CMake generation the project can be configured through the IDE UI.
> 
> That is likely not compatible with CMake's notion of maintaining
> the build system.
> 
> This is why previous similar discussions resulted in the cmake server
> mode and in identifying the value of a declarative spec format that
> can be managed outside of CMake's language processor.

IOW, now that cmake has server-mode, the recommended approach is to implement 
a plugin for cmake-server mode in Eclipse.

Alex



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