[ale] [OT] Any Eclipse and C users on the list

[Ryan Curtin]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:22:04PM -0500, Michael Potter wrote:
> Ale Crew,
> 
> I am posting this here because:
> 1) Eclipse is open source and runs on Linux,
> 2) I will be using Eclipse on CentOS,
> 3) I will be using Eclipse on C code (as opposed to Java).
> 
> I could use the help of an Eclipse expert who uses Eclipse with C.
> 
> I am converting a project from being compiled with "./configure; make"
> to be compiled under Eclipse.
> 
> Although Eclipse allows invoking make, I have found that it will not
> meet programmers expectations of a project that was originally
> developed on Eclipse.
> 
> Three things make it not clean:
> a) I use some bash scripts to generate code; scripts invoked by make.
> b) I use some bash scripts to generate some makefiles; scripts invoked
> by configure.
> c) I have many targets in the make file including several shared objects.
> 
> I want to refactor the project to be more "Eclipse Friendly".
> 
> Anyone on this group use Eclipse and C and can give me some tips?  I
> am willing to pay.

Hello Michael,

You emailed president at lugatgt.org looking for the guy who gave the CMake
presentation last February and it was me.  I figured it would be more 
helpful to reply to the whole ALE list so my "wisdom" (or lack thereof)
can be publicly archived for the ages.

> One of the things that I like about cmake is that it allows building
> in a separate directory than the source.  I always hand-code my
> makefiles to do this and wondered why build systems did not do this.

I do want to note that autotools supports out-of-source builds just like
CMake.  For instance, with your autotoolized project, try this:

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ ../configure
$ make

I think gcc, which uses autotools, actually forces you to do an
out-of-source build (even though autotools does not require it).

Based on what you have written, I get the idea that your project is not
using autotools and instead './configure' is handwritten.  Is this
correct?  I am trying to understand the problem.

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