[CMake] Re: IDE directly supporting CMakeLists.txt?

[Mike Jackson]

Yep.. I hear ya and I understand. I have wanted something like this  
for a while now. I have pondered the idea of extending Eclipse with  
the CDT plugin to dynamically generate the CMakeLists.txt files but  
the task is just to big for me alone to do. I think in the end it  
would be a good IDE but the CMake folks have expressed a dis-interest  
in making CMake into a library, for good reasons. With out that  
support I think it might be a long and difficult road.

-- 
Mike Jackson   Senior Research Engineer
Innovative Management & Technology Services


On Feb 6, 2007, at 11:17 AM, wedekind wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> thanks for your hints. Well, ok, I could use any IDE that can be  
> configured
> to run any command as its build command. So a text editor will do  
> generally.
>
> But this is not exactly what I want. I'm looking for an IDE that  
> supports
> the CMakeLists.txt such that it interprets them and translates them  
> into a
> GUI-dialog for build configuration. Maybe an example will clarify  
> the reason
> behind it:
>
> Say you are working with CMake-generated VisualStudio project  
> files. If you
> want to add a file, you cannot use the IDE for it. I.e. you cannot
> drag-and-drop it on your IDE or add it via a context dialog. You  
> need to add
> the new file to your CMakeLists.txt and this change will be  
> realized in the
> IDE the next time you build (and reload) your project.
>
> You can do that with a little discipline, but there is of course a  
> source of
> error (and little annoyance) if you cannot use the IDE as usual with
> CMake-generated build-files. It would be really cool, if you could  
> make
> changes to the build config with your IDE and they are reflected in  
> the
> CMakeLists.txt. At best the IDE would be cross-platform ;)
>
> I know that this is out-of-scope for CMake, but maybe one of you  
> knows about
> attempts in this direction?
>
> Cheers
>
> Marco
>
>
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