Question

I’m working on a big project, some might say awesome.

The project is being developed in c++ with cmake and netbeans. Everything is working fine except from the fact that every time I do updates to the project, add or remove source files, netbeans runs cmake and adds a new project to ‘projects’ list. This is somewhat annoying since i tend to do this alot.

Is there a smart way to make sure netbeans does not create new projects every time a sub directory is added?

Answer 1

Good news!

As of NetBeans 6.8, CMake is handled gracefully, just like any other configure script:

1. Make a new “C/C++ Application from existing sources”.
2. Specify the directory of the project (where CMakeLists.txt resides).
3. In the “Select configuration mode”, select “Automatic”.

And NetBeans will run cmake to build the Makefile when it’s necessary
(or when you click “Reconfigure project”).

See the original thread on the NetBeans forums for more info.