RIF: [CMake] kdevelop problems

[frederic heem]

On Tuesday 31 October 2006 12:39 pm, Luigi Calori wrote:
> Thanks, Frederic
>
> My sistuation is I have aready an hand written CMakefile (I ususally
> work on MS visual studio) for several generators (Unix Makefiles, mingw,
> MS VS 7...)
>  I currently build under Linux thru Makefiles, I would like to test
> Kdevelop as an IDE platform for Linux.
> So I installed Kdevelop (under Fedora Core 5) and set up the generator
> as KDevelop3
> I currently keep
> CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR != CMAKE_BUILD_DIR and, worse, my c++ sources reside on
> an external dir from CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR
>
> The problem is that if I open the kdevelop project that has been
> generated by CMake, it does not contains any c++ source nor any include
> file
>
I've never tried to generate kdevelop project files by cmake . Just generate 
Makefile by cmake and import the project from kdevelop.
> I' ve tied with a simpler project thar has c++ files inside
> CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR and the files are showed.
>
> Is it a known limitation?
> Do I have to use special hacks inside CMakefiles to tell Kdevelop to add
> the files to the project?
>
> Thanks in advance
>                                       Luigi
>
> Frederic Heem wrote:
> >Ciao,
> >The problem is in kdevelop, not in cmake itself. When kdevelop create a
> > cmake project, CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR = CMAKE_BUILD_DIR, which is a bad idea.
> > The preferred way is that CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR != CMAKE_BUILD_DIR. Then
> > cleaning a project is just a matter of deleting CMAKE_BUILD_DIR. The
> > other advantage is to ability to have different build configuration,
> > example a debug and non debug build. Please report a bug report to
> > kdevelop about this issue.
> >By the way, it's still possible to use kdevelop and cmake, that's what I'm
> > using to develop. Just create hand written CMakeList.txt, import the
> > project in kdevelop using "custom makefile", then configure kdevelop to
> > use the build directory to compile, and sett other paramaters such as
> > where is the executable. Frederic Heem
> >
> >-----Messaggio originale-----
> >Da:	cmake-bounces+frederic.heem=telsey.it at cmake.org per conto di Luigi
> > Calori Inviato:	lun 30/10/2006 18.09
> >A:	CMake Mailing List
> >Cc:
> >Oggetto:	[CMake] kdevelop problems
> >
> >I' m new to kdevelop and starting to use CMake for it.
> >I' ve a project that builds correctly with make but has source files
> >that resides on  external directory
> >(outside from CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR)
> >The generated kdevelop projects seems empty from  source files (it shows
> >only CMakelists.txt inside CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR)
> >Nevertheless the project builds.
> >Did I do something wrong or the placing of source files outside from
> >CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR prevent listing inside kdevelop?
> >
> >Thanks in advance
> >                                 Luigi
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