[Rosegarden-devel] Using Eclipse/CDT

[Philippe M. <phi...@gm...>]

I just wanted to report my experience in using Eclipse/CDT with
Rosegarden. I wanted to give it a try after coming across the wiki
page:
http://rosegarden.wiki.sourceforge.net/EclipseCDT

I would suggest to add the following instructions in order to avoid a
couple of mistakes I've made (I guess I'm not authorized to edit the
page myself).

- "Install Subversion plugin": when following the instructions for the
Subclipse plugin (from the Update Manager menu), I had some unresolved
dependencies (Buckminster) by just choosing to install the Sublicpse
plugin, because of some optional integration components that are not
needed. I'd advise to drill down the Subclipse item and uncheck the
optional Integrations (Buckminster and Mylyn): only this way I could
finish off the installation (resolving the dependencies proved
difficult).

- after checkout, when prompted for the project name, keep the
suggested name 'rosegarden': this makes Run/Debug History usable,
otherwise it is difficult to start the debugger and keep it attached
to the RG process (it can be changed afterwards, but it is not
"dummy-proof"). In particular these targets make use of the --nofork
option which enables debugging (so it is probably necessary for gdb as
well)

- clarify a little bit how the RGINSTALL works and it's use in
defining KDEDIRS and the like, otherwise execution blocks when
comparing the versions stored in version.txt files; a link to
http://rosegarden.wiki.sourceforge.net/Working+with+multiple+installed+build+versions
together with an update on how to do it with cmake would be real time
savers!


With this information I hope the wiki page can be truly usable "out of the box".


-- 
Best regards,
Philippe.