RE: [cdt-dev] Replacing the CDT's Make build system

[Hope Duryea <hope_duryea@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the reply. I had already read that article,
but I'm still trying to fully absorb it. There were
aspects of it that struck me as things I wouldn't need
or in some cases even want (like auto-build) -- I
guess it's just not clear to me why Eclipse is even
dealing with the detail of my build at all, other than
for the cancellation and problem-reporting... but I'm
probably just still not quite understanding what it's
really about.

The thing is, I already have a CLI-based build system
fully in place and I've been asked to see about making
it usable from within Eclipse. Much of the source
(though not all of it) is C/C++, which is why I wanted
to see about using the CDT for what it offers wrt
handling C/C++ development. But also why I don't want
any of the Make-based build stuff, not even as an
option, since I'm not putting together a
general-purpose development environment (if I were,
they could just download the CDT :) What I -think- I
should be able to do is just mostly UI stuff, to deal
with specifying build configuration aspects (the build
I deal with is all about configurability -- the actual
building of the targets is the easy part :), then
generate a command line and exec it, whenever they ask
to build. Please correct me, though, if that thinking
is way off. (I can try and spiffy things up later with
wizards for adding new source subdirs and what-not,
but for now, I just want to get the basics in place.)

I doubt if what I'll be doing would be generic enough
to offer back, but maybe I could try to document what
I had to do, in case anyone else ever wants to do the
same.


--- "Recoskie, Chris" <crecoskie@xxxxxx> wrote:
> There are articles on eclipse.org that talk about
> creating builders in
> general.  The best place to start is reading those.
>
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Builders/builders.html
> 
> Other than that, you need to know that the standard
> that we have is that
> any builders that CDT should care about have either
> the cnature or
> ccnature (depending on if the builder is C-based or
> C++-based
> respectively).  There is more that you will have to
> do if you want all
> the bits and pieces of CDT interacting properly with
> your build system
> (e.g. parsing your included files and such), but
> that should be enough
> to get you started I think if you follow the info in
> the builder
> articles and documentation.
> 
> The topic of creating additional non-make based
> builders for CDT came up
> a couple of times this week at EclipseCon.  I'm sure
> we'd all be
> interested in hearing more about what you are doing.
>  E.g., could you
> tell us what your requirements are, and whether you
> are you planning on
> contributing such a build system to CDT?
> 
> ___________________________________________
>  
> Chris Recoskie
> Software Designer
> IDE Frameworks Group
> Texas Instruments, Toronto
>  
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cdt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cdt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
> > Behalf Of Hope Duryea
> > Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 7:19 PM
> > To: cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [cdt-dev] Replacing the CDT's Make build
> system
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Being new to both Eclipse and the CDT, before I go
> too
> > far down the road I'm going, I thought I'd check
> here
> > and make sure it's the right way to go. I want to
> > fully replace the Make-based build system of the
> CDT
> > (I don't want to add to or customize it, I don't
> want
> > anything Make-oriented in there at all). What I've
> > done so far is to pick up all the CDT plugins,
> except
> > these:
> >   org.eclipse.cdt.make.core_2.1.0
> >   org.eclipse.cdt.make.ui_2.1.0
> >   org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.core_2.1.0
> >   org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.ui_2.1.0
> > 
> > which I assume I can then replace with my own
> stuff.
> > So, questions... Is this the right approach? Has
> > anyone done anything like this before? Is there
> any
> > documentation on adding a build system to the CDT,
> or
> > do I just have to read through the source for the
> > Make-based stuff and get an idea of how it's done
> from
> > that (I'm guessing MakeCorePlugin.java is a good
> place
> > to start :)
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
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