Linux software development IDE quandary

[Stephen Adler]

have you tried cmake?

On 06/05/2010 10:56 AM, Mark Woodward wrote:
> Here's my problem:
>
> I'm old. I'm set in my ways.  I have a LOT of code that has accumulated
> over my career and stored in libraries that I use for various projects
> from time to time.
>
> Most of the code is pretty good, I think, some of it is crap that works
> or mostly works. It builds on almost any platform with a little tweaking
> from time to time. Subsets of this code have been used on embedded x86
> projects, embedded Linux ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, Windows, solaris, Linux (of
> course). You get the picture. To accomplish this, I have some pretty
> elaborate make files. Every 5 or so years, I attempt to refactor the
> make system, and never quite get there. the automake stuff is such a
> PITA I spend a day or so on it and get frustrated.
>
> I'm getting a little tired with the vi/make/gdb paradigm. It is getting
> laborious. With bigger monitors and more screen real estate, IDE's are
> starting to make more sense. The problem, none of the IDEs I have looked
> at support external projects very well. Unless you use their project and
> make system, the IDE is reduced to an MDI editor and a way to run make.
> You don't get any of the benefit of the tags and stuff.
>
> Sure, I can add this crap to my make files, but jeez, then why bother
> with the ide in the first place?
>
> Anyone have any suggestions? Want to share your your misery?
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