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

[Mohammad Mirzadeh]

I applogize for the mistake; Include files are actually located
in $PETSC_DIR/include

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Mohammad Mirzadeh <mirzadeh at gmail.com>wrote:

> Ok then. Now I don't have enough experience with Eclipse so
> I apologize beforehand if you already know these/have tried them out. If
> not, hopefully they can be of help. I assume there should be a way in
> Eclipse to give it the link lib directory. In plain makefile that's just a
> simple step when linking. To get all the needed linklibs for petsc, you can
> do
>
> make getlinklibs
>
> in the $PETSC_DIR. As for the needed include files, they are all located
> in
>
> $PETSC_DIR/$PETSC_ARCH/include
>
> Again, its easy to use these directories along with your makefile. I'm not
> sure about how you give them to Eclipse though. Hopefully this has been
> helpful.
>
> Best,
> Mohammad
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Matt Bockman <mdbockma at ucsd.edu> wrote:
>
>> Just pointing it to the library would be sufficient.
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Mohammad Mirzadeh <mirzadeh at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> 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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