CMake Code::Blocks Generator Deprecation

[inversesquare.zip]

Hello,
I've noticed several other people have requested how to use CMake with Code::Blocks and have been told to run a command like the following:

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cmake . -G "CodeBlocks - Unix Makefiles"
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However, that command is part of Extra Generators [1] which is, as mentioned in the description, deprecated. According to the CMake documentation, "support for Extra Generators is deprecated and will be removed from a future version of CMake." Is anyone planning on making Code::Blocks work with CMake some other way? Thank you for your time.

[1]https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/generator/CodeBlocks.html

[HunterZ]

Wondering about this as well. This is making me hesitate to get too deep into Code::Blocks because CMake integration is a must.

Kitware seems to be encouraging IDE developers to integrate with their cmake-file-api: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/cmake-file-api.7.html

[stahta01]

Since they never really supported native CB Projects. Them dropping support for CB Custom makefile projects are not a major loss.

[ollydbg]

Since they never really supported native CB Projects. Them dropping support for CB Custom makefile projects are not a major loss.

From my point of view, I agree with you.

The generated cbp(from CMakefiles) is just a makefile, and not a real CB native Project file.

[inversesquare.zip]

Is there any plan to support CMake integration then?

[ollydbg]

Is there any plan to support CMake integration then?

I don't use CMake in my own projects, so I don't have the motivation to improve this.

If you have the need, or other devs has the motivation, you/they can try to integrate it.

But I still don't know what does the "cmake-file-api" used for.

[Grit Clef]

Is there any plan to support CMake integration then?

But you can still partly use this functionality in CB, by installing someone's plugin.

[inversesquare.zip]

Whose plugin?

[Grit Clef]

https://wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php/Project_Exporter
This website introduces it simply. I remember the latest version can be downloaded from github, but now I can't find the right address...

[christo]

https://wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php/Project_Exporter
This website introduces it simply. I remember the latest version can be downloaded from github, but now I can't find the right address...

This plugin exports the project as CMake, but still plugin to import cmake is not available.
I've collected Project_Exporter source from github and added to https://github.com/josephch/CBProjectExporter . It looks good, needs a bit more polishing. Now  manual edits of generated CMakeLists.txt is required to make it work.

[Wkerry]

The repo is not forked and I cannot find where it came from as you said it came from github.

Can you point me at where you "llected Project_Exporter source from github" so I look at the original source.

Thanks.

[Grit Clef]

@christo
Thanks for your provision. You do need to modify the generated file, but that is more easier.

[christo]

The repo is not forked and I cannot find where it came from as you said it came from github.

Can you point me at where you "llected Project_Exporter source from github" so I look at the original source.

Thanks.

I got the information  about github project https://github.com/acotty/CodeBlocks_Unofficial_Testing/ from  https://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php/topic,25062.0/prev_next,next.html#new , but I could not access that repo. So I seached for forks of CodeBlocks_Unofficial_Testing and found https://github.com/stahta01/CodeBlocks_Unofficial_Testing . Copied the code from that repo https://github.com/stahta01/CodeBlocks_Unofficial_Testing/tree/master/src/plugins/contrib/ProjectExporter . Hope this helps.

[Wkerry]

Thanks.