Ogre Cmake project generation

[Lax]

Hi,

I would like to start porting my engine to linux ubuntu and have a few questions:

• Which ide do you use on linux?

• Is it possible when building cmake ogre to genereta the project e.g. for eclipse? Or the ide, you use?

On windows i get visual studio project files in order to build Ogre. But how would this work on linux ubuntu?

Best Regards
Lax

[Crystal Hammer]

I'm on Debian, and using VSCodium, it needs some work to set up, at least C++ and CMake extensions. I got many more.
Used Qt Creator before too, it's less fancy, needs less effort to start. It already has CMake support.
In both, you just open folder with CMakeList.txt of your project. That's it, both should understand it and be able to build & run.
As for Ogre, only tried it once, it's big. I don't change it so can't say much if these IDEs can handle it.

[dark_sylinc]

Qt Creator has IMO the best integration with CMake and will fell the most familiar for Visual Studio users.

VS Code is also very good. Other uses prefer Eclipse but personally I stay away as far as possible from it. It's very bloated for my taste.

This video from Bruce Dawson (back when he worked for Valve) is an excellent introduction:

Just to give a small explanation:

• On Linux there are two main ways to drive C++ builds (there's more though). They're actually powerful systems to do generic automation, not just building C++ projects:

  1. GNU Make

  2. Ninja (it's newer and for most purposes, superior)

• IDEs have various ways of working on Linux:

  1. The IDE parses CMakeCache.txt generated by CMake in the build folder (this is what Qt Creator used to do a long time ago)

  2. Using CMake in server mode, and directly talk to it (this is what Qt Creator does now)

  3. Having its own build system (e.g. Qt Creator has QMake, Visual Studio on Windows uses msbuild and sln files, KDevelop also has its own project system which CMake supports generation natively)

  4. Having a generic interface e.g. Qt Creator supports adding source folders, include folders, and then asking you what command to run in order to build (like "make all" or "ninja" or "gcc myFile.cpp")

Today Qt Creator with native CMake integration in Server mode works great and that's what I use.
VSCode also works.

This one is for Qt Creator for Windows, but the workflow is the same for Linux:

VS Code

Protip: if the videos are too slow for you, just set the playback speed to 1.5x or 2.0x