Re: [cdt-dev] Mozilla now has built-in support for CDT project generatio

[Alena Laskavaia <elaskavaia.cdt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Are you calling cdt command line application to import the project? There is a way to hold off indexer before project build is complete, but
it is java programmatic API. But if you want to contribute to CDT it may be easier to do what you want from CDT and just add extra arguments
to existing application (command line entry to CDT)

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Benoit Girard <bgirard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Sorry if this doesn't pertain directly to cdt-dev. I was told this
list might be interested in knowing this since I heard the CDT is
tested against mozilla-central from time to time.

This week the last piece of the CDT project generation was merged in the
mozilla repo. This means that you can generate a project for gecko and
launch eclipse using only the following commands:
hg pull https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central
./mach ide eclipse

This gives an 90-95% working indexer. Most of the problems are because
our project generation is incomplete and a few issues is the indexer
doesn't handle the fancy (i.e. hacky) #include tricks we use.

Writing the project generator took me about 10-15 hours but it feels
very hacky and fragile. My process was modifying options through the
CDT and watching diffs to the setting/XML files. I wish there was a
better way generate and import build settings. The most challenging
part was automating the import a project to the workspace without
indexing it. The
generator is here:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/python/mozbuild/mozbuild/backend/cpp_eclipse.py

If anyone has any suggestions from the CDT side for
improving this or making this more robust, we would be interested
to hear.

- Benoit
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