[hannes]

Dear OpenFOAM programmers,

I just wanted to extend some OpenFOAM applications and do this in an comfortable way using QtCreator.
Though there are some instructions how to create the required CMakeLists.txt, I wanted to automate the process a little bit. I created a script to generate a CMakeLists.txt from an existing wmake "Make"-directory.
Not very sophisticated yet, but perhaps useful for somebody:

https://github.com/hkroeger/wmake2cmake

Regards, Hannes

[Andrew.Coughtrie]

Interesting but with qtcreator you can just use a custom build step and put wmake or an Allwmake script, this is what I use.

What would be more useful i think would be a way to generate the .includes file qtcreator uses for autocomplete and code highlighting.

[hannes]

Hi Andrew,

using the autocompletion feature was exactly the motivation.

When the CMakeLists.txt is created, you can just open it with File > "Open File or Project" and autocompletion should work (at least it did for me) because all include paths are inserted into the CMake config file.

There is unfortunately a little drawback: if you edit the code snippets that are included in executables (like "createFields.H"), the symbols are not recognised.

Regards, HK

[anon_q]

I don't know if this is relevant or not but, As you might have heard Qt is moving away from qmake in favor of CMake.

Source: This link

[hannes]

Hi Evren,

I did not know, thanks for the info.

It makes sense to me, as CMake is very versatile and powerful and it makes probably little sense to maintain one's own build system.

I think it would make sense as well for OpenFOAM to drop wmake and switch to CMake...