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In wush978/RCMake: Generate IDE project for developing R extension with CMake

Introduction

Rstudio is great IDE for R, but it lacks some useful features for developing C/C++ such as source nevigation and type hierarchy. There are various type of IDE for C/C++ such as CodeBlocks and Eclipse CDT, but it is complicated to setup an appropriate projects

CMake is a cross platform and open-source build system which can generate projects of various IDE. However, the user still needs to learn the CMake script for setting up projects.

Therefore, I decide to develop RCMake which provides basic commands to setup C/C++ projects for cmake supported IDEs.

Install

library(devtools)
install_github("RCMake", "wush978")

Usage

Step 1: Generate IDE project

R project:

library(RCMake)
setwd(tempdir())
a <- 1
package.skeleton("RCMakeDemoR", "a")
create.R.project(name="RCMakeDemoR", path=".") # CMakeLists.txt will be put at <path>/<name>. I suggest to put it in the root of R package
list.IDE() # check available IDE
dir.create("build") # It is recommended to make a seperated directory to build project 
setwd("build")
execute.cmake(cmakelists.path="../RCMakeDemoR", IDE="eclipse") # generate eclipse CDT project at "build"

Rcpp project:

library(RCMake)
library(Rcpp)
setwd(tempdir())
Rcpp.package.skeleton("RCMakeDemoRcpp")
create.Rcpp.project(name="RCMakeDemoRcpp", path=".") # CMakeLists.txt will be put at <path>/<name>. I suggest to put it in the root of R package
list.IDE() # check available IDE
dir.create("build") # It is recommended to make a seperated directory to build project 
setwd("build")
execute.cmake(cmakelists.path="../RCMakeDemoRcpp", IDE="eclipse") # generate eclipse CDT project at "build"

Step 2, import generated project

KDevelop3

It creates in the toplevel binary directory files: - Project.kdevelop - Project.kdevelop.filelist

Eclipse CDT

Open eclipse and import project from build(See cmake-eclipse-cdt for demo).

Code::Blocks

CMake: This support is still in beta and needs feedback in order to mature.

Reference

• CMake Generator Specific Information

wush978/RCMake documentation built on May 4, 2019, 12:01 p.m.