C/C++ IDE support for HotSpot

[jesper.wilhelmsson at oracle.com]

Hi,

I use the OpenJDK NetBeans project most of the time and am very happy with it. I still think Mikael's initiative is a very good one since I don't believe in forcing developers to use some specific tools, but rather think that we should make the OpenJDK code available to as many developers as possible regardless of their IDE preference.

The technology should adapt to humans, humans should not adapt to technology.

Thanks,
/Jesper

> On 22 Mar 2017, at 16:02, Stanislav Smirnov <stanislav.smirnov at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Mikael,
> 
> why do not you try NetBeans that has openjdk project support out of the box?
> common/nb_native/nbproject
> 
> Best regards,
> Stanislav Smirnov
> 
> 
>> On 22 Mar 2017, at 17:21, Mikael Gerdin <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
>> 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.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> /Mikael
>