Building a library and executable with 300 C++ files.

[Aleix Pol]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Michael Hart <michael.george.hart at gmail.com
> wrote:

> The unfortunate side effect of labeling a product Kdevelop 4 is you have
> long time users like me expecting the ease of use of Kdevelop 3 and not have
> egg on ones face trying to demonstrate it wondering why Kdevelop 4 is such a
> radical departure from the original; I can't simply add files to a
> directory/project and compile that file.
>
> Also, guys while I love how the new intellisence works, you have given the
> word IDE to your product and IDE means isolation, insulation from a build
> system to most people especially the marginal people using VS
>
> I am very disappointed that you have now spell it out for me; I am going to
> have to know something about the build system cmake if I am to become
> proficient at Kdevelop 4. I was really hoping that would not be the case.
>

> Thanks
>
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:
>
>> Michael Hart, 29.11.2010:
>> > I know this to be very simple to do with Kdevelop 3.x.y and for that
>> matter
>> > MV visual studio
>> >
>> > Today is my last attempt to use Kdevelop4 and because kdevelop3 is
>> broken
>> > under all versions of openSuSE 11.x I have to totally abandon the
>> Kdevelop
>> > environment in favor of something else for the only great think I see
>> about
>> > Kdevelop 4 thus far is the intellisence of the editor.
>> >
>> >
>> > I have about 300 C++ files in a directory and all I want to compile them
>> > into a libraries and executable without resorting to some type of manual
>> > convolution with the build system such as Cmake
>> >
>> > Kdevelop 3 and for that matter all the other IDEs I have ever used over
>> > that past 10 years you simply add the file to a project or even easier a
>> > directory and you are ready to build.
>> >
>> > Kdevelop 4 environment seems to want me to manually manipulate
>> > CMakeList.txt file.
>> >
>> > Is there an automated way to make these CMakeLIst.txt files?
>>
>> Hey Micheal.
>>
>> No, there is no such thing. And you probably didn#t create these 300 files
>> without running make, once, did you? Isn't that an existing project which
>> comes with makesfiles, e.g. from autotools back then? Why do you want to
>> convert it to CMake if you don't like it? You can run make with KDevelop
>> 4.
>>
>> And as I told you already on my blog [1], KDevelop 4 has no support for
>> autotools (yet?), and we do want to add more wizards in the future.
>>
>> While I'm of course sad to see any user abandon KDevelop, and see your
>> reasons, I still have to say: Generators are always limited, and CMake is
>> just
>> another language, more or less. Learn it and love it, or stick to old
>> tools
>> that come with autotools support. Or stay tuned until we come to a point
>> where
>> we also have more wizards for CMake. Just don't expect that it will all be
>> hidden and being done magically in the background, that simply does not
>> work.
>>
>> Bye
>>
>> [1]: for those who missed that:
>> http://milianw.de/blog/google-code-in-first-
>> kdevelop-documentation-screencast#comment-1092<http://milianw.de/blog/google-code-in-first-%0Akdevelop-documentation-screencast#comment-1092>
>>
>> --
>> Milian Wolff
>> mail at milianw.de
>> http://milianw.de
>>
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What buildtool where you using in kdevelop3? we keep supporting the same
mostly, so it should just keep working. (KDevelop doesn't support VS
projects yet).

Aleix
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