[CMake] Eclipse generator question

Martin Weber fifteenknots505 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 3 17:50:02 EDT 2019


Am Mittwoch, 3. April 2019, 22:55:45 CEST schrieb Benjamin Shadwick:
> FYI,
> 
> I opened a bug on CMake's tracker about updating the CMake generator since
> its outputs are kind of garbage for modern CDT releases:
> https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/issues/19107
> 
> Unfortunately the only feedback I got was that there is a push to remove
> *all* generators in favor of forcing IDEs to use cmake-file-api. I opened a

+1 from me for removing IDE project generators.

[...]
> Maybe being tied to the filesystem view is an inherent limitation of
> Eclipse (and/or CDT), or maybe it was at one time and neither CMake nor

To implement the 'index only files referenced through the build script' view, 
*any* IDE would have to *interpret* the build scripts. 
Just choose an IDE that has a build script interpreter to solve your use case.

> cmake4eclipse are taking advantage of what modern Eclipse versions can do.

Sounds promising. What is it that _modern Eclipse versions can do_?

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