kDevelop 4.7.0 parsing WxWidgets projects

[Kevin Funk]

On Sunday, May 03, 2015 10:53:43 Steve the Fiddle wrote:
> On 3 May 2015 at 09:11, Kevin Funk <kfunk at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Friday, May 01, 2015 17:10:51 Steve the Fiddle wrote:
> >> I am trying to use kDevelop 4.7.0 on Debian 8 to work on a large
> >> project built with WxWidgets 2.8.12.
> >> Because Debian Stable now uses WxWidgets 3.0, I have built WxWidgets
> >> 2.8.12 from source, and then configured the project (Audacity 2.1.1
> >> alpha) with:
> >> ./configure --enable-debug
> >> WX_CONFIG=/home/myusername/sourcecode/wxGTK-2.8.12/buildgtk/wx-config
> >> 
> >> The project builds successfully.
> >> 
> >> The problem is that it seems that kDevelop cannot find WxWidgets, so
> >> it complains about all Wx functions saying "Declaration not found" and
> >> prompting me to declare the function.
> >> 
> >> How do I tell kDevelop where to find WxWidgets so that it can parse
> >> the code correctly in the editor window?
> > 
> > With your mouse, hover over the missing #include in the editor (missing
> > includes are marked with a red underline).
> > 
> > When doing this, you should be prompted with a tooltip offering a "Solve"
> > button. Click this, and then add additional include paths via the dialog.
> > 
> > Hope that helps.
> 
> Thanks for the reply, but the only options provided by "Solve" are:
> 
> "Declare ''void FunctionName()' as a member of
> 1 private
> 2 protected
> 3 public
> 0 Hide"

Please re-read my mail -- You have to navigate to the *include section*.

I presume the problems you're facing are because KDevelop cannot find the 
WxWidgets includes. So you'll have to fix *this* issue.

Greets
 
> If I select any option other than "Hide", the function is declared in
> the associated .h file.
> That breaks the build because the functions are then declared but not
> defined.
> 
> Note that this is a large (well over 500,000 lines of code) C++
> project that builds with gcc. It is not a viable solution to make vast
> changes to the code just so that it works in kDevelop.
> 
> gcc knows where to find the WxWidgets functions because
> "WX_CONFIG=path" is passed by .configure, but kDevelop can clearly not
> see that.
> 
> I have read various solutions for earlier versions of kDevelop, but I
> have not been able to find any way in kDevelop 4.7.0 to tell kDevelop
> where to find external libraries. Surely there MUST be a way to do
> this?
> 
> Steve
> 
> > Greets
> > 
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Kevin Funk | kfunk at kde.org | http://kfunk.org
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