[Bf-committers] New Developer Meeting minutes

[joe]

Yeek.  That's horrible.  I wonder how hard would it be to write some
utility code for the cmakefiles that scans for #include statements.
This sort of thing is exactly why I stick with scons, despite it's
horrific speed problems.  :-/  I'm even tempted to rewrite our scons
files to use waf instead sometimes.

Joe

> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Erwin Coumans <erwin.coumans at gmail.com> wrote:
>> INC is to tell the compile what include directories to use. Without it the
>> source won't compile.
>>
>> If you don't specify the headerfiles, the source compiles, links and runs,
>> but
>> dependencies and program database (MSVC) won't work properly.
>>
>>
>> 2010/1/9 Erwin Coumans <erwin.coumans at gmail.com>
>>
>>>
>>> No, you need to specify the headerfiles (either by individual name or GLOB
>>> * wildcard)
>>> for dependencies and certain features to work properly
>>> (for example MSVC won't find definitions properly (right-click 'goto
>>> definition'),
>>> if headerfiles are missing from the cmake generated projectfiles.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Erwin
>>>
>>>
>>> 2010/1/9 Nicholas Bishop <nicholasbishop at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Really? I was pretty sure you just have to make sure the header paths
>>>> are set using SET(INC path1 path2 ...)), and it's only source files
>>>> that have to be explicitly named or wildcarded.
>>>>
>>>> -Nicholas
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Erwin Coumans <erwin.coumans at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > All headerfiles have to be included, either manually (each by name) or
>>>> using
>>>> > a wildstar (using GLOB). I suppose GLOB with a wildcard is what you
>>>> refer to
>>>> > as 'header paths'?
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks,
>>>> > Erwin
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > 2010/1/9 joe <joeedh at gmail.com>
>>>> >
>>>> >> So in cmake, do you have to include the header paths or actually list
>>>> >> the header files themselves?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Joe
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Erwin Coumans <erwin.coumans at gmail.com
>>>> >
>>>> >> wrote:
>>>> >> > By the way, if OpenCollada breaks the cmake build system, it should
>>>> be
>>>> >> > disabled I think.
>>>> >> > Hopefully that motivates someone who needs OpenCollada to fix it.
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > Can someone disable OpenCollada by default it in cmake?
>>>> >> > Thanks,
>>>> >> > Erwin
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > 2010/1/7 Ken Hughes <khughes at pacific.edu>
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> >> Since this thread is now about build systems, can we please change
>>>> the
>>>> >> >> subject line?
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >> Ken
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >> Campbell Barton wrote:
>>>> >> >> > Not sure what dependency updates are exactly - if files are added
>>>> you
>>>> >> >> > need to run "cmake ." in the build dir but aside from that I never
>>>> had
>>>> >> >> > any dep propblems.
>>>> >> >> >
>>>> >> >> > I'm tempted to install Windows just to get rid of the MSVC Project
>>>> >> >> > files and have CMake create propper debug builds... it cant be
>>>> that
>>>> >> >> > hard can it?
>>>> >> >> >
>>>> >> >> > @Martin, my experience with using scons and eclipse isnt so good,
>>>> it
>>>> >> >> > works OK but a bit annoying to setup, I recall I needed to have
>>>> >> >> > eclipse call a shell script that called scons.
>>>> >> >> >
>>>> >> >> > Eclipse + Cmake is nicer, and takes the work out of setting up the
>>>> >> >> > project each time. especially if you want to switch to developing
>>>> in
>>>> >> >> > branches for a bit.
>>>> >> >> >
>>>> >> >> > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Martin Poirier <theeth at yahoo.com>
>>>> >> wrote:
>>>> >> >> >
>>>> >> >> >> --- On Thu, 1/7/10, Erwin Coumans <erwin.coumans at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >> >> >>
>>>> >> >> >>
>>>> >> >> >>> New developers (and myself) can browse and debug code much
>>>> >> >> >>> easier in
>>>> >> >> >>> an IDE such as msvc, Xcode or K develop, in my opinion. And
>>>> >> >> >>> manual
>>>> >> >> >>> updating projectfiles is a waste of time.
>>>> >> >> >>>
>>>> >> >> >> It's very easy to use Eclipse (with CDT) with scons. K Develop
>>>> was
>>>> >> >> pretty easy to setup too the last time I tried. There was no project
>>>> >> files
>>>> >> >> to update or anything.
>>>> >> >> >>
>>>> >> >> >> Martin
>>>> >> >> >>
>>>> >> >> >>
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