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

[Satish Balay]

use:
make getincludedirs

Satish

On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Mohammad Mirzadeh wrote:

> 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
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
>