Native support for CMake in KDevelop 4

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Thu Mar 23 20:16:19 CET 2006


Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Thursday 23 March 2006 02:03, Matt Rogers wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'd like to start working on native CMake support for KDevelop 4. What I
>>mean by this is that when you open a project that is set up to use CMake,
>>the CMakeLists.txt files plus any additional cmake macros are automatically
>>loaded in and can be edited natively?
>>
>>Does CMake have a library that can be linked to by a KDevelop plugin in
>>order to reuse CMake's parsing code to produce something like an abstract
>>syntax tree that can be used by this plugin? If not, how feasible would it
>>be to provide this?
>>
>>Posted here instead of cmake at cmake.org since i'm not subscribing to that
>>list for just one post.
> 
> 
> When compiling cmake there is a static lib generated. I don't have time right 
> now but I wrote some small test app which used this lib.
> It doesn't get installed, but maybe you could reuse the sources.

We (CMake devs) are talking about ways to share the parser 
implementation with KDevelop or other projects.  We'll get back to you 
when we've reached a decision.

-Brad


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