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Tutorial for using NMake with CDT [message #205242]

Tue, 20 November 2007 04:46

Eclipse User

Is there any tutorial for using NMake with CDT? I use cmake to generate
the NMake files and I would love to be able to at least try a compile
from with in CDT. I know I can not debug my code, but I can generate
visual studio projects on demand for that when I need it.

Thanks
Mike Jackson

Re: Tutorial for using NMake with CDT [message #205267 is a reply to message #205242]

Tue, 20 November 2007 17:04

Eclipse User

Mike Jackson wrote:

> Is there any tutorial for using NMake with CDT? I use cmake to generate
> the NMake files and I would love to be able to at least try a compile
> from with in CDT.

At the project preferences change the build command from make to nmake.
I expect you to do out of source build. If so your top-level Makefile could
look like this
<Makefile>
CMAKE_FLAGS= -G"NMake Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug

all: build/CMakeCache.txt
cd build && $(MAKE)

clean:
cd build && $(MAKE) clean

build/CMakeCache.txt:
cd build && cmake $(CMAKE_FLAGS) ../
</Makefile>

Regards,
--Maik

Re: Tutorial for using NMake with CDT [message #205578 is a reply to message #205267]

Tue, 27 November 2007 02:09

Eclipse User

Did you succeed?

-- Maik

Re: Tutorial for using NMake with CDT [message #205589 is a reply to message #205578]

Tue, 27 November 2007 09:26

Eclipse User

On 2007-11-27 02:09:01 -0500, Maik Beckmann <maikbeckmann@gmx.de> said:

> Did you succeed?
>
> -- Maik

Nope. I do not want to add another unnecessary file to the project just
for eclipse. I believe there is probably a way to get Eclipse to run
nmake from another directory. I just do not know enough about Windows
to make that happen. (OS X and Linux are my primary Dev platforms)

Mike

Re: Tutorial for using NMake with CDT [message #205610 is a reply to message #205589]

Tue, 27 November 2007 15:57

Eclipse User

Mike Jackson wrote:
> Nope. I do not want to add another unnecessary file to the project just
> for eclipse. I believe there is probably a way to get Eclipse to run
> nmake from another directory. I just do not know enough about Windows
> to make that happen. (OS X and Linux are my primary Dev platforms)
>
> Mike

You don't have to add anything. Its IMHO just easier to trigger everything
via a toplevel makefile and is absoluteley unrelated to the editor/IDE.

You can do it without this toplevel makefile by using nmake -f
build/Makefile as build command, where you substitute "build" with the
directory name you ran cmake at.

Basically a eclipse "Makefile-Project" allows you to use any build command
(ant/jam/bjam/scons... myownbuildscript.sh). The reason why it is
called "Makefile-Project" is IMHO that the output error parser knows make.

Best,
-- Maik

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