[petsc-users] PETSc, C++ and Eclipse

[Mohammad Mirzadeh]

So do you want to be able to compile PETSc with Eclipse or just point it to
the library to use in your own applications?

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Matt Bockman <mdbockma at ucsd.edu> wrote:

> Thanks Mohammad,
>
> I'll give that a shot. I use Qt Creator for some GUI applications so I am
> familiar with it, but I've never tried doing a non-Qt project in it. I'd
> really like to get Eclipse to work.
>
> Regarding the makefiles for eclipse. There are makefiles that it generates
> (which are for GNU make) but I think I can also manually create my
> makefiles. After sleeping on it, it seems like this might be the best
> option, unless I can figure out a way to configure eclipse to include the
> conf/variables and conf/rules files in the makefile.
>
> Matt
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Mohammad Mirzadeh <mirzadeh at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Although this is sort of orthogonal to what you do right now,
>> I recommend Qt Creator as an alternative IDE to Eclipse. It links nicely
>> with PETSc(or any other library for that matter) and has excellent c/c++
>> support.
>>
>> Mohammad
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>  There is a tiny bit of information in the PETSc users manual about
>>> Eclipse:
>>>
>>> \section{Eclipse Users} \sindex{eclipse}
>>>
>>> If you are interested in developing code that uses PETSc from Eclipse or
>>> developing PETSc in Eclipse and have knowledge of how to do indexing and
>>> build libraries in Eclipse please contact us at \
>>> trl{petsc-dev at mcs.anl.gov}.
>>>
>>> To make PETSc an Eclipse package
>>> \begin{itemize}
>>> \item Install the Mecurial plugin for Eclipse and then import the PETSc
>>> repository to Eclipse.
>>> \item elected New->Convert to C/C++ project and selected shared library.
>>> After this point you can perform searchs in the code.
>>> \end{itemize}
>>>
>>>  A PETSc user has provided the following steps to build an Eclipse index
>>> for PETSc that can be used with their own code without compiling PETSc
>>> source into their project.
>>> \begin{itemize}
>>> \item In the user project source directory, create a symlink to the
>>> petsc/src directory.
>>> \item Refresh the project explorer in Eclipse, so the new symlink is
>>> followed.
>>> \item Right-click on the project in the project explorer, and choose
>>> "Index -> Rebuild". The index should now be build.
>>> \item Right-click on the PETSc symlink in the project explorer, and
>>> choose "Exclude from build..." to make sure Eclipse does not try to compile
>>> PETSc with the project.
>>> \end{itemize}
>>>
>>> We'd love to have someone figure out how to do it right and include that
>>> information.
>>>
>>>   Barry
>>>
>>> On Jul 26, 2011, at 4:32 PM, Matt Bockman wrote:
>>>
>>> > Has anyone gotten PETSc to work w/Eclipse? Eclipse nicely generates all
>>> my makefiles for me for my current project (which is written in C++). I'd
>>> like to link PETSc w/my application but I'm not sure how to do this.
>>> >
>>> > Suggestions?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Matt
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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