[cmake-developers] Adding a non-make based generator

[Alexander Neundorf]

Hi,

On 2018 M02 14, Wed 22:16:54 CEST Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On 2018 M02 14, Wed 18:46:52 CET Saeed, Khurram wrote:
> > Thanks Alex.
> > Yes it does support generating the project in the build dir. It also works
> > while generating in a subdir of the source dir. Eclipse version control
> > plugin also works (I am using git).
> 
> Interesting.
> How did you get that working ?
> 
> Let's say the directories look like this:
> 
> src/CMakeLists.txt
> build/CMakeCache.txt
> build/.project
> build/.cproject
> 
> I guess this is what you generate, right ?
> How do you get the source tree into this project ?
> The Eclipse-generator in cmake uses a "linked resource" to the source dir,
> but the version control plugin is not activated for those files.
> According to the Subversion-Plugin developers this is because the source
> files are then outside the "project directory", i.e. no below the directory
> where the .project file is located.
> 
> So I'm really interested how you got that working.
> Can you send the .project and .cproject files for a simple hello-world
> project, built out-of-source ?

any news here ?

Alex