For what is worth, I agree. Cheers, Mario
On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 at 17:37, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I use the OpenJDK NetBeans project most of the time and am very happy with > it. I still think Mikael's initiative is a very good one since I don't > believe in forcing developers to use some specific tools, but rather think > that we should make the OpenJDK code available to as many developers as > possible regardless of their IDE preference. > > The technology should adapt to humans, humans should not adapt to > technology. > > Thanks, > /Jesper > > > On 22 Mar 2017, at 16:02, Stanislav Smirnov < > [email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > 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 > > > >
