Hi, I recently saw a JIRA ticket MYNEWT-120 about support for generating IDE project files and decided to try to integrate CMake files generation into newt. CMake can generate makefiles, Eclipse project files, Sublime Text project files and more. And it is supported by CLion IDE and recently by Visual Studio. An additional motivation was that Eclipse (which I currently use) is very slow when using build output parser.
I submitted a WIP code for this functionality (https://github.com/apache/mynewt-newt/pull/88). It allows you to generate a CMakeLists.txt file for a specified target with a command: "newt target cmake <target>". Suggestions regarding command naming and code placement are welcome. Right now only compilation is supported and it's not yet 100% the same as in "newt build" but it's close. I tried to use CLion with this functionality and it works pretty well. I can compile, jump to definitions, find usages, jump to includes etc. Also, the appropriate syscfg.h is included. I can change the target by running the "newt tagret cmake" and then hitting "Reload CMake" in CLion. I also tried using it with Eclipse. Generated Eclipse project works ok, you can compile, jump to definitions and all that. Only the target change part is trickier. I had to close, reopen project (not Eclipse, just the project) and reindex files to be able to jump to appropriate syscfg.h. Let me know what you think about it and where can we go next. BR Michał Narajowski
