Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

Alexander Neundorf wrote: > Maybe this is of interest: the Eclipse CDT developers are currently > working on improved support for cmake: > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=350206 > http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/cdt-dev/msg29621.html Yes, I noticed that too a few days ago. My

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

Hi, On Saturday, July 25, 2015 20:33:46 Stephen Kelly wrote: > Aleix Pol wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Stephen Kelly > > > > wrote: > >> Stephen Kelly wrote: > >>> The aim is to generate a structured file containing metadata relating > >>> the buildsystem. >

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Stephen Kelly steve...@gmail.com wrote: Stephen Kelly wrote: The aim is to generate a structured file containing metadata relating the buildsystem. I've been quiet on this thread for a while, so I think it is time for an update. I became more ambitious

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

Aleix Pol wrote: On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Stephen Kelly steve...@gmail.com wrote: Stephen Kelly wrote: The aim is to generate a structured file containing metadata relating the buildsystem. I've been quiet on this thread for a while, so I think it is time for an update. I

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

Stephen Kelly wrote: The aim is to generate a structured file containing metadata relating the buildsystem. I've been quiet on this thread for a while, so I think it is time for an update. I became more ambitious in mid March and started prototyping a more-complete design for CMake IDE

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 19:08:37 +0200, Stephen Kelly wrote: AFAICT, CMake does still know the command line in your output-target-flags- once-in-ninja branch. You just need to compute two outputs - once for writing the Ninja file (containing variables), and again for writing the content

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 14:32:51 +0200, Stephen Kelly wrote: On 04/02/2015 10:29 AM, Anton Makeev wrote: Just to make sure, you mentioned that this file should be deprecated with this new metadata.json, is that correct? I'm not sure I mentioned that, just that it's an externally defined

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

Ben Boeckel wrote: On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 14:32:51 +0200, Stephen Kelly wrote: However, there are other users of the compile-commands.json, so it will remain and the feature for generation of it will not be deprecated. Or, to be more clear - it doesn't need to be deprecated as a result of

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

On 04/02/2015 10:29 AM, Anton Makeev wrote: I see, but how will having include_directories help ‘Add include directory’-like actions? I mean, simply having this list (without additional info like backtraces) doesn’t seem to help much. We'll have to see :). So, in the end, we probably need

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

On 01 Apr 2015, at 00:41, Stephen Kelly steve...@gmail.com wrote: Anton Makeev wrote: The problem with the following format: --- include_directories : [/foo, /opt] compile_definitions : [DEF=\Foo\, OTHER_DEF=1] compile_flags: [ -c ] — Is that it’s incomplete and cannot be used

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

On 01 Apr 2015, at 00:17, Stephen Kelly steve...@gmail.com wrote: Anton Makeev wrote: It comes from CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES, if project defined such a variable. With default of Debug/Release/RelWithDebInfo/MinSizeRel Ok. So does this mean you have a parser for the existing

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

Anton Makeev wrote: On 01 Apr 2015, at 00:41, Stephen Kelly steve...@gmail.com wrote: Anton Makeev wrote: The problem with the following format: --- include_directories : [/foo, /opt] compile_definitions : [DEF=\Foo\, OTHER_DEF=1] compile_flags: [ -c ] — Is that it’s incomplete

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

Tobias Hunger wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 12:41 AM, Stephen Kelly steve...@gmail.com wrote: Anton Makeev wrote: The problem with the following format: --- include_directories : [/foo, /opt] compile_definitions : [DEF=\Foo\, OTHER_DEF=1] compile_flags: [ -c ] — Is that it’s incomplete

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

Anton Makeev wrote: Not only do we reed it, we also have the UI that allows user to interact and the cached values. That means we’ll have CMakeCache parser anyways and do not need these values in metadata.json file, as it was mentioned in parallel discussion. Yes, that's what I thought. I

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

I favor documenting the existing format, too. Note added to issue with my vote. D On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Stephen Kelly steve...@gmail.com wrote: Anton Makeev wrote: Not only do we reed it, we also have the UI that allows user to interact and the cached values. That means we’ll

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

Anton Makeev wrote: The problem with the following format: --- include_directories : [/foo, /opt] compile_definitions : [DEF=\Foo\, OTHER_DEF=1] compile_flags: [ -c ] — Is that it’s incomplete and cannot be used directly: * include directories list misses compiler-defined search paths

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

On 21 Mar 2015, at 09:41, Stephen Kelly steve...@gmail.com wrote: Anton Makeev wrote: The other thing that seems troubling to me is that since file, target, language compiler options are split into different parts of metadata, the IDE need to know exactly how to assemble them back into

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

On 24 Mar 2015, at 00:54, Stephen Kelly steve...@gmail.com wrote: Tobias Hunger wrote: How about include_directories, compile_definitions and compile_flags? So something along the lines of: include_directories : [/foo, /opt] compile_definitions : [DEF=\Foo\, OTHER_DEF=1]

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

On 30 Mar 2015, at 21:21, Alexander Neundorf neund...@kde.org wrote: On Monday, March 30, 2015 19:04:10 Anton Makeev wrote: On 24 Mar 2015, at 00:54, Stephen Kelly steve...@gmail.com wrote: Tobias Hunger wrote: How about include_directories, compile_definitions and compile_flags? So

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Anton Makeev anton.mak...@jetbrains.com wrote: Another item of note is that CMake does not know the compile flags as a sequential container of individual flags currently, but it knows them as a string (that's also why it appears as a string in my generated json

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

Stephen Kelly wrote: I expect to require a few iterations to figure out what the metadata files should contain in the end. Just FYI, I have not forgotten about this and am working on an expanded design to cover the reported needs. Thanks, Steve. -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

Tobias Hunger wrote: and which kit (think set of compiler, Qt, some other settings) were used to in the built in that directory. Is this hypothetical? Currently I can add a compiler location and a Qt location in QtCreator, and I can create a kit and give it a name and partcular compiler

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Stephen Kelly steve...@gmail.com wrote: Anton Makeev wrote: The other thing that seems troubling to me is that since file, target, language compiler options are split into different parts of metadata, the IDE need to know exactly how to assemble them back into

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

Tobias Hunger wrote: Hi Anton, you raised some good points, all of which I agree with:-) On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Anton Makeev anton.mak...@jetbrains.com wrote: * If it is useful to preprocess/compile/assemble individual files from IDEs, as made possible by the Makefiles and

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

Anton Makeev wrote: The other thing that seems troubling to me is that since file, target, language compiler options are split into different parts of metadata, the IDE need to know exactly how to assemble them back into the compiler’s command line (e.g. what flags go first file’s or

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

Tobias Hunger wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Stephen Kelly steve...@gmail.com wrote: * Make it possible for editors/IDEs to allow specifying the configuration at build-time, where the IDE has that feature, and where a multi-config generator is available. That is, QtCreator

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

Hi Anton, you raised some good points, all of which I agree with:-) On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Anton Makeev anton.mak...@jetbrains.com wrote: * If it is useful to preprocess/compile/assemble individual files from IDEs, as made possible by the Makefiles and Ninja generators, we'll need

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

Hi Stephen, On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 2:22 AM, Stephen Kelly steve...@gmail.com wrote: * In Target Properties/Conditional Properties and optional properties: Would it make sense to have a list of target_files, each with a filepath and a type? That would be more similar to the targets which also

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

Aleix Pol wrote: By 'in scope' you mean 'used by the primary CMakeLists.txt files via include() or find_package()' or something like that? OK, let's see if that's the best source of that data or if we should add something new internally in cmake. By in scope I mean whether a variable or a

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

Nils Gladitz wrote: On 03/11/2015 11:10 AM, Stephen Kelly wrote: I'm starting to gather requirements and make sure the feature is well designed to satisfy the needs we're already aware of, and fits with the features CMake currently has. Source file groups (as in defined by source_group())

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

On Saturday, March 14, 2015, Aleix Pol aleix...@kde.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Stephen Kelly steve...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Following from the thread here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.devel/10711/focus=12394

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Stephen Kelly steve...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, March 14, 2015, Aleix Pol aleix...@kde.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Stephen Kelly steve...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Following from the thread here:

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Stephen Kelly steve...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Following from the thread here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.devel/10711/focus=12394 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.devel/10711/focus=12650 I'm

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

On 03/11/2015 11:10 AM, Stephen Kelly wrote: I'm starting to gather requirements and make sure the feature is well designed to satisfy the needs we're already aware of, and fits with the features CMake currently has. Source file groups (as in defined by source_group()) and target folders (as

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

On 03/11/2015 11:10 AM, Stephen Kelly wrote: Hi, Following from the thread here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.devel/10711/focus=12394 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.devel/10711/focus=12650 The discussion in that thread is

Re: [cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 11:10:30 Stephen Kelly wrote: Hi, Following from the thread here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.devel/10711/focu s=12394 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.devel/10711/focu s=12650 I'm starting to

[cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

Hi, Following from the thread here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.devel/10711/focus=12394 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.devel/10711/focus=12650 I'm starting to gather requirements and make sure the feature is well designed to satisfy