Re: [cdt-dev] Overnight build on managed make projects

[Keith Campbell <keithc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

There's no need to write anything new.
The ant task 'eclipse.incrementalBuild' triggers the creation and execution
of the necessary makefiles, if only we can get someone to apply the patch
in https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=208484 so that it doesn't
depend on UI elements. Here's a ant macro and a sample target that illustrates
how one can set up automated builds.

        <target
name="compile">
         
      <cdt.build project="hello"/>
        </target>

        <macrodef
name="cdt.build">
         
      <attribute name="project"/>
         
      <sequential>
         
              <echo>Building
@{project} . . .</echo>
         
              <eclipse.incrementalBuild
         
               
      kind    = "incremental"
         
               
      project = "@{project}"
         
               
      builder = "org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.core.genmakebuilder"/>
         
              <echo>Refreshing
@{project} . . .</echo>
         
              <eclipse.refreshLocal
resource="@{project}" depth="infinite"/>
         
      </sequential>
        </macrodef>

-Keith

Thomas Fletcher <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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2008/05/31 09:55

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Subject	Re: [cdt-dev] Overnight build on managed make projects

Schaefer, Doug wrote:
> The official stance is that the makefiles generated by managed make
are
> not intended to be checked into source control (which is why they
are
> marked derived) and are not meant to be shared. The fact that they
run
> outside of Eclipse is also not really supported, but as you mention,
> luckily it works.
> 
> There is a bug/enhancement request to support building managed build
> projects in this manner. Idealy we would use a headless ecilpse to
do
> the build and take advantage of CDT's internal builder and other
> builders where possible, but we have run into some weird dependencies
> with core components on UI components that is currently preventing
that.
> I don't have the bug number handy but it shouldn't be too hard to
find
> (althought with >1200 open bugs it might be).

If I can dig it up, some months ago I wrote an eclipse --application
plugin extension that effectively ran eclipse to both generate the makefiles
for the local environment as well as optionally kick off and do a build.

Wanted to add in error reporting, console capture etc, but never quite
got around to it.

If there is some interest, I'll dig through my archives and pull it up.

Thomas
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Thomas Fletcher
Crank Software Inc.
www.cranksoftware.com