[CMake] CDT generator - CDT 8.0.1 [Visual Studio compiler support]

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Wednesday 19 October 2011, Nicholas Yue wrote:
> On 10 October 2011 03:00, Alexander Neundorf <a.neundorf-work at gmx.net>wrote:
> > On Friday 07 October 2011, Nicholas Yue wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > >   Using CMake 2.8.4, I see Eclipse CDT4 generator support for NMake
> > >   
> > >   With the recent release of CDT 8.X, there is Visual Studio compiler
> > > 
> > > as a new/separate toolchain.
> > > 
> > >   Are there plans to support that as a generator?
> > 
> > Not sure anything special is needed for that.
> > Did you try it already ?
> 
> Hi Alex,
> 
>   Sorry for the slow reply.
> 
>   Yes, I have tried that.
> 
>   The generated .cproject and .project files seems to be missing the
> include path definitions
> 
>   I noticed this indirectly when I tried to use the Indexer in CDT 8.0.1,
> the include path from the CMakeLists.txt didn't seems to make it to the
> generated .cproject and .project files so the indexer does not know where
> to look for the necessary headers for the given project. This means that
> the auto-completion feature is not taken advantage of.

Yes, this is currently only implemented for gcc and for the Intel compiler.

Is there a way to query cl.exe or the preprocessor or something else 
appropriate for the builtin include dirs and macros, so it prints them to 
stdout ?

Alex