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

Severin Gehwolf sgehwolf at redhat.com
Wed Mar 22 18:15:34 UTC 2017

Hi,

On Wed, 2017-03-22 at 15:21 +0100, Mikael Gerdin 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 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 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 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.

I, for one, wholeheartedly support this effort. Hopefully this will get in. Kudos! Note: I didn't have time to test this yet.

Thanks, Severin

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