Compiling Just One File.

Michael Hart michael.george.hart at gmail.com
Wed Sep 7 15:36:53 BST 2011


>The CMake+Make support also allows to build individual object files, simply
select the .cpp in the Project tree and hit Build.
Yes, I would have thought that would be the logical way to compile a single
file.
When I do as you recommend, the whole project get built. Which is not what I
want.




On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:

> On 07.09.11 14:31:52, Milian Wolff wrote:
> > On Tuesday 06 September 2011 23:26:20 Michael Hart wrote:
> > > LOL!
> > >    I have been using kdevelop4 with cmake for sometime now and not
> until
> > > yesterday did I ever have the need to compile just one specific C++
> file in
> > > my entire project of about twenty plus *.cpp files. I would simply
> press F8
> > > key and be happy.
> > >
> > > However, now I would like experiment with the content of just one C++
> file;
> > > compile it but not build the entire project. How do I do this with
> > > kdevelop4?
> >
> > I don't get it, do you want to compile a "hello-world"-style file, i.e.
> without
> > any external dependencies and such? Then take a look at the "quick
> compile"
> > external script which just calls gcc on the file.
>
> The CMake+Make support also allows to build individual object files,
> simply select the .cpp in the Project tree and hit Build. If you already
> have items in the build selection (the lower left list under the project
> tree
> view) then you'd have to remove those first since they override the
> current selection in the project tree (you can also just add the .cpp
> file there).
>
> Andreas
>
>
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