Hi Stanislav, last time I checked, there was no support for netbeans on Windows, is that still the case?
Thanks, Thomas On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 4:02 PM, Stanislav Smirnov < stanislav.smir...@oracle.com> wrote: > Hi Mikael, > > why do not you try NetBeans that has openjdk project support out of the > box? > common/nb_native/nbproject > > Best regards, > Stanislav Smirnov > > > > > > > On 22 Mar 2017, at 17:21, Mikael Gerdin <mikael.ger...@oracle.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I've finally grown tired of manually setting up a hand crafted Eclipse > CDT configuration for the JVM sources and decided to share my progress > towards improving the overall situation for JVM developers. > > > > To achieve better IDE support without having to add project generators > for all different kinds of past or future IDEs I've decided to try to > leverage CMake to do project generation. > > The idea is to have the JDK build system generate a CMakeLists.txt > describing all the include paths and definitions required by an IDE to > interpret the sources correctly. > > > > Several modern IDEs natively support CMake but we can also rely on the > fact that the CMake build system has the ability to generate projects for a > number of different IDEs. For information about which generators CMake > supports see > > https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.5/manual/cmake-generators.7.html > > for your CMake version. > > > > To try this out check out (heh) my branch "JDK-8177329-cmake-branch" in > the jdk10/sandbox forest: > > http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk10/sandbox/branches > > So far I've only made changes in the toplevel and hotspot repositories. > > I've written a short readme in the repo: > > http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk10/sandbox/raw-file/JDK- > 8177329-cmake-branch/README-cmake.html > > > > It would be great if people tried this out to see if it works on their > setup but I don't expect it to work on Windows without changing the > makefile to do path conversion. > > If we can make this work properly then perhaps we can get rid of the > Visual Studio generator and rely on CMake to generate VS projects. > > > > It would also be great if someone from build-dev could give me some > hints about how to do the file writing and "vardeps" thing properly. > > > > Thanks > > /Mikael > >
