C/C++ IDE support for HotSpot (original) (raw)

Stanislav Smirnov stanislav.smirnov at oracle.com
Wed Mar 22 17:40:47 UTC 2017

Hi Thomas,

according to https://netbeans.org/downloads/ there is Windows platform with C/C++ support if I understood you correctly.

Best regards, Stanislav Smirnov

On 22 Mar 2017, at 20:34, Thomas Stüfe <thomas.stuefe at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Stanislav, last time I checked, there was no support for netbeans on Windows, is that still the case? Thanks, Thomas On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 4:02 PM, Stanislav Smirnov <stanislav.smirnov at oracle.com <mailto:stanislav.smirnov at oracle.com>> wrote: Hi Mikael, why do not you try NetBeans that has openjdk project support out of the box? common/nbnative/nbproject Best regards, Stanislav Smirnov

> On 22 Mar 2017, at 17:21, Mikael Gerdin <mikael.gerdin at oracle.com <mailto:mikael.gerdin at oracle.com>> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've finally grown tired of manually setting up a hand crafted Eclipse CDT configuration for the JVM sources and decided to share my progress towards improving the overall situation for JVM developers. > > To achieve better IDE support without having to add project generators for all different kinds of past or future IDEs I've decided to try to leverage CMake to do project generation. > The idea is to have the JDK build system generate a CMakeLists.txt describing all the include paths and definitions required by an IDE to interpret the sources correctly. > > Several modern IDEs natively support CMake but we can also rely on the fact that the CMake build system has the ability to generate projects for a number of different IDEs. For information about which generators CMake supports see > https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.5/manual/cmake-generators.7.html <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A_cmake.orgcmakehelpv3.5manualcmake-2Dgenerators.7.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=RoP1YumCXCgaWHvlZYR8PQcxBKCX5YTpkKY057SbK10&r=9YfM3bKkWy3cpyWthRfyfAiQHbbMKEPL6snPxtZtjh8&m=hZmVYDLD5jMoRUkVz8XSkqkOWmXFskfsKbJ4lRDXcU&s=Sd11q12ajJn0vRz4qbXDgiUXjI9vj21kOa5chSLM8&e=> > for your CMake version. > > To try this out check out (heh) my branch "JDK-8177329-cmake-branch" in the jdk10/sandbox forest: > http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk10/sandbox/branches <http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk10/sandbox/branches> > So far I've only made changes in the toplevel and hotspot repositories. > I've written a short readme in the repo: > http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk10/sandbox/raw-file/JDK-8177329-cmake-branch/README-cmake.html <http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk10/sandbox/raw-file/JDK-8177329-cmake-branch/README-cmake.html> > > It would be great if people tried this out to see if it works on their setup but I don't expect it to work on Windows without changing the makefile to do path conversion. > If we can make this work properly then perhaps we can get rid of the Visual Studio generator and rely on CMake to generate VS projects. > > It would also be great if someone from build-dev could give me some hints about how to do the file writing and "vardeps" thing properly. > > Thanks > /Mikael

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