Native support for CMake in KDevelop 4

[Matt Rogers]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 02:16:19PM -0500, Brad King wrote:
> 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

Excellent news. Thanks. :)