Importing a CMake project into Eclipse CDT
KDevelop is an awesome IDE with great CMake support.
As for Eclipse - run this:
cd <project_dir>
cmake -G "Eclipse CDT4 - Unix Makefiles" ./
This will produce Eclipse project for you.
Elaborating on arrowd's answer for Eclipse:
First, choose a directory for the CMake files. I prefer to keep my Eclipse workspaces in ~/workspaces
and the source code in ~/src
. Data which I need to build or test the project goes in subdirs of the project's workspace dir, so I suggest doing the same for CMake.
Assuming both your workspace and source folders are named someproject
, do:
cd ~/workspaces/someproject
mkdir cmake
cd cmake
cmake -G "Eclipse CDT4 - Unix Makefiles" ~/src/someproject
Then, in your Eclipse workspace, do:
File > Import... > General > Existing Projects into Workspace
Check Select root directory and choose ~/workspaces/someproject/cmake
. Make sure Copy projects into workspace is NOT checked.
Click Finish and you have a CMake project in your workspace.
Two things to note:
- I used
cmake
for the workspace subdir, but you can use a name of your choice. - If you make any changes to your build configuration (such as editing
Makefile.am
), you will need to re-run the last command in order for Eclipse to pick up the changes.