Hi Mitchell It would be great if you were interested in doing some work on the CDT plugin. It's one part of the C++ support that isn't receiving any love at the moment, and it would cool if there was a 'champion' who could keep it up-to-date with all of the changes to C++ support, as well as adding missing IDE-specific features like build-paths.
There is a design spec for the ongoing development of C++ support in Gradle: https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/design-docs/continuous-delivery-for-c-plus-plus.md. You'll notice the absence of any mention of CDT in there :). I'm currently working on extending the 'cpp' plugin to allow compilation of C and Assembly language sources. The C-language support is already in, and the Assembly stuff will be in soon. C compilation is done via GCC using the '-x c' option, so I think that should address the second feature you're looking at. A recent commit added a sample for how a C project could look ( https://github.com/gradle/gradle/tree/master/subprojects/docs/src/samples/cpp/c) which should be available in the next nightly build ( http://gradle.org/nightly). Let me know if you need any more pointers on how to proceed with improving the CDT support. I really appreciate your offer of assistance. Daz On 11 July 2013 09:52, Mitchell Mounts <mmou...@allstontrading.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am looking at contributing to gradle to help add more functionality to > it's eclipse-cdt and g++ support. Specifically, I want to add an option in > CDT to allow users to add build paths. I would also like to give users the > option to compile C code with the 'g++ -x c' option. > > I noticed that a recent commit to the cpp sub-project was entitled > 'Initial cut of support for compiling C sources,' and I am curious if this > actually removed the feature that I am proposing and if there is a specific > reason to avoid this path? > > For the cdt change, I have been looking at the source and it seems to me > that the change would have to be made in the CprojectDescriptor model. > > If there is anything else about gradle's C and CDT functionality that I > should be made aware of, please let me know! > > Thanks, > Mitchell > > ------------------------ > This message is for the named person(s) use only. It may contain > confidential proprietary or legally privileged information. No > confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If > you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all > copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the > sender. You must not, directly or indirectly use, disclose,distribute, > print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended > recipient. Allston Trading LLC and its subsidiaries and affiliates each > reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its > networks. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual > sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is > authorized to state them to be the views of any such entity. > ------------------------ > -- Darrell (Daz) DeBoer Principal Engineer, Gradleware http://www.gradleware.com
