Re: [gedit-list] Using gedit as development environment

[Jef Driesen <jefdriesen hotmail com>]

I know how to add my own external tools, so that's not rally the 
problem. The problem is that I don't how to achieve the result I would like.

The default "Build" tool searches for a makefile in the current 
directory, and if no makefile is found it looks in the parent 
directories. Thus with a normal autotools setup, where the makefile is 
located in the same directory everything works as expected, and the code 
in the current directory is rebuild.

But with my VPATH setup, gedit doesn't find the makefile because they 
are not located in a parent directory. Of course I can drop a makefile 
in my project directory that builds all 3 platform trees. But that means 
the *entire* project is build, not only the active directory. For 
example my project contains a "src" directory with the main library code 
and and "example" directory with sample applications. But when I'm 
working on a source file from the "src" directory, I only want to build 
the library, not the entire project including the example applications. 
With a non-VPATH build that works as expected, and I would like to be 
able to do the same for the VPATH build.

On 10/05/10 16:22, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro wrote:
> Hi,
>
> you can create your own external tool and use it to build your source, like
> if you were building in a terminal.
>
> Regards.
>
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Jef Driesen<jefdriesen hotmail com>  wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I use gedit as a simple development environment. Almost everything I need
> > is already there. There is a classbrowser plugin, I can execute make as an
> > external tool and its output goes to the shell output pane, where I can
> > click file and line numbers, etc.
> >
> > But recently, I switched to an automake VPATH setup to cross compile my
> > code for a couple of platforms (linux, windows and macosx) from a single
> > source tree. So I have four directories:
> >
> > project
> > project/source
> > project/linux
> > project/windows
> > project/macosx
> >
> > But when I'm editing a source file, and want to build the code, it doesn't
> > work anymore because there are no makefiles anymore in my source tree. Due
> > to the VPATH setup, the makefiles are in the build directories.
> >
> > Does anyone knows a solution for this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jef