Re: [cdt-dev] Minimal C/C++ compiler in toolchain to serve scanner confi

[Martin.Runge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi Marc-Andre, Hi Doug,

I had a day-long look at how arduino and autotools manage to hide the 
detailed gcc settings. They both turn "supports managed build" for their 
toolchain definitions off. cdt.managedbuild.tool.gnu.cpp.compiler.base is 
derived from cdt.managedbuild.tool.gnu.cpp.compiler and therefore inherits 
all the options (I expected the other way around).

Autotools have defined two tools "configure" and "autogen" via plugin.xml 
that show up in a seperate Autotools property page instead of "C/C++ 
Build->Settings->Tool Settings" (which is hidden). I didn't yet understand 
how, but it looks nice. I already have a CMake property page in place and 
would like it to display the tools defined in plugin.xml.

Unfortunately, I have an other drawback when setting cmake plugin's 
toolchain managed build property to false -> My project templates 
disappear from the new project wizard together with their category.

The sames happens when I try to avoid deriving from gcc.

I agree, that it would be better to not derive from gcc, as it is just one 
compiler amoung others that might be used by a cmake build.... here is my 
major problem right now. I need to put somthing reasonable into the plugin 
to e.g. get a category in the new project wizard and to reuse scanner 
config, but actually I need to change these settings programmatically 
after the cmake run when I know the real compiler command.

So what I could try is to define a new language ID: genric-c/generic-c++ 
which will not attract the available language settings providers, but the 
cmake language settings provider instead. Then I would need to somehow 
duplicate functionality from the available built-in scanner and compile 
output parser... That is not nice for sure, but would it be a preliminary 
solution until the build model supports setting the toolchain 
programmatically after the Makefile was generated by cmake, qmake or 
whatever?

best regards
Martin




Von:    Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxx>
An:     CDT General developers list. <cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Datum:  2015-07-27 16:55
Betreff:        Re: [cdt-dev] Minimal C/C++ compiler in toolchain to serve 
scanner config
Gesendet von:   cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx



I¹m deriving from the gnu.*.compiler.base for the tools in the Arduino AVR
toolchain and things are pretty hidden. Though, I¹m not sure whether I
actually needed to since I specify things like the language settings
provider on my toolchain which doesn¹t derive from gcc. Again, those
definitions are in the plugin.xml of org.eclipse.cdt.arduino.core.

This also points out my biggest concern with the current model, that
toolchains have builders. These concepts need to be independent so that we
can use the same toolchain definitions for multiple builders and adding a
new builder you don¹t need to deal with this.

Doug.

On 2015-07-27, 10:43 AM, "cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of
Marc-André Laperle" <cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of
marc-andre.laperle@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hi Martin,
>
>I think it's probably better not to derive from gnu.[c,cpp].compiler
>toolchains as it will be harder to hide a lot of stuff and it will only
>somewhat make sense for situations where CMake does use GCC. I haven't
>tried yet but there has to be a way to reuse the GCC Built-in Settings,
>perhaps duplicating some things in plugin.xml would be necessary. I'll
>give that a try. I'm also thinking that CMake could have its own Built-in
>settings provider that would defer to the right compiler-specific
>built-in settings provider (GCC, Clang, MSVC) depending on the CMake
>toolchain.
>
>Regards,
>Marc-Andre
>
>________________________________________
>From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf
>of Martin Runge [martin.runge@xxxxxx]
>Sent: Friday, 24 July 2015 11:58 AM
>To: CDT DEV (cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx)
>Subject: [cdt-dev] Minimal C/C++ compiler in toolchain to serve scanner
>config
>
>Hi all,
>
>For my CMake plugin, I need an idea how to solve to following problem:
>
>In plugin.xml, I defined a toolchain with builder, a tool called cmake
>and a
>build configuration.  The actual compiler and its options  is handled by
>cmake, so CDT does not need too many details about compiler itself.
>
>Unfortunately I cannot use the GCC Built-in Settings scanner as long as I
>do
>not add a C/C++ Compiler to the toolchain, that is derived from
>cdt.managedbuilder.tool.gnu.[c,cpp].compiler. But when I do, I get lot of
>compiler settings offered in "Project properties->C/C++ Build->Settings",
>like
>Dialect, Preprocessor, Includes, Optimization ... These settings are very
>confusing for the user, because they have no effect as the compiler
>settings
>are handled by CMake.
>
>How can I hide the C/C++ Build->Settings options of the base GNU compiler
>in
>my toolchain?
>Or is there a way to provide my compiler in plugin.xml as tool in the
>toolchain, that has no options, but will play together with the GNU C/C++
>Built-In Settings detector?
>
>Any ideas welcome...
>
>Thank you in advance
>Martin
>
>
>
>
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