On Dec 8, 2013, at 3:18 AM, David Erickson <daviderick...@cs.stanford.edu>
wrote:
> On 12/5/2013 5:40 AM, Michael Jackson wrote:
>> I used to use Eclipse for coding with CMake and the what worked the best for
>> me was the following (This assumes you are on Unix/Linux/OSX).
>>
>> Start in "Project A". Create a directory "Build". Have CMake generate
>> "Makefiles" using "Build" as the build directory.
>>
>> Start up Eclipse. Create a new "Existing Makefile" project and during the
>> setup of that project you need to adjust the build command to "make -C
>> ${ProjDirPath}/Build VERBOSE=1" which tells Eclipse to run make but use your
>> already created Build directory with your makefiles.
>>
>> Then Eclipse will show you the complete "file system" of Project A, VCS
>> works, builds work (inside AND outside of Eclipse). The only downside is you
>> get .project/.cproject in your Project A directory which you can have VCS
>> easily ignore with a few config files. The procedure is described on the
>> CMake wiki here
>>
>> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake:Eclipse_UNIX_Tutorial Look for "Option 2".
>> THere are screen shots to help you through the setup.
>>
>>
>
> Thanks Mike-
> I gave this a go and I can definitely build and see all my source, however
> Eclipse by default was very confused about where to find the source. I read
> on the tutorial that when you run with VERBOSE=1 Eclipse should be capable of
> picking up all the include directories, however when I browse to Project
> Properties -> C/C++ General -> Paths and Symbols nothing was showing up, so
> pretty much everything in my source code was red. I discovered to get this
> working you need to go to Project Properties -> C/C++ General -> Preprocessor
> Includes, and on the Providers tab enable "CDT GCC Build Output Parser" and
> "CDT GCC Built-in Compiler Settings". Afterward doing a clean/build, and
> re-index, and everything was resolving as expected.
>
> Thanks!
> David
If you put the VERBOSE=1 then Eclipse will parse the compile lines and
automatically find the include directories. So you need to setup the project
then try compiling at least once and Eclipse should find everything. I have
never had a problem with it finding includes except for OS X Frameworks.
Mike Jackson
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