Hi Robert, This will be a bit long-winded, so bear with me. I¹m also cross-compiling for Android with CMake, and am currently using Eclipse ADT for much of my development. I have tried hard to make Eclipse work for both the Java and the C++ portions of my libraries and applications, but gave up after a few months when it became apparent that Eclipse¹s support for Android¹s C++ toolchain is horribly broken. Essentially, I got it to work for brief periods of time, with concurrent Java/C++ debugging, but then Eclipse would inexplicably forget all of the library/include paths, display thousands of red squiggles all over my code, and then refuse to launch my application. The only Œsolution¹ was to completely strip the project of its C++ nature, add it back in, and then reconfigure all the library/include paths, at which point everything would work again for a few hours or a couple of days. Add to this the fact that Google has officially deprecated Ant+Eclipse in favor of IntelliJ+Gradle, and it¹s become clear that my time will be better spent migrating to Android Studio.
Of course, Android Studio has absolutely no support for C/C++ at the moment, but at least it won¹t get in the way like Eclipse did. So I think a near-term solution is to use Android Studio for all of the Java code, in conjunction with one of several different Visual Studio-based offerings for all the C++ code: Visual Studio 2015 WinGDB VisualGDB Android++ Somewhere around the CMake 3.1 timeframe, they introduced a small feature that enables the Visual Studio generator to support any arbitrary cross-toolchain, instead of just a few hardcoded ones. I¹ve been using this to generate VS solutions that target Native Client as well as Windows Phone. Although I haven¹t yet had a chance to play around with any of the offerings I mentioned previously, I believe you will be able to use this same feature to target Android, after you have installed one of these plug-ins in Visual Studio. Probably not the answer you wanted to hear, but I thought I would share my experience and hopefully save you some trouble. Parag Chandra Senior Software Engineer, Mobile Team Mobile: +1.919.824.1410 <https://ionic.com> Ionic Security Inc. 1170 Peachtree St. NE STE 400, Atlanta, GA 30309 On 4/30/15, 4:46 PM, "Robert Dailey" <[email protected]> wrote: >On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Robert Dailey ><[email protected]> wrote: >> I am implementing support for Android in my CMake scripts by using >> custom commands to invoke 'ant' to build the final APK. If I do it >> this way, and I generate for eclipse, how can I make sure it will >> integrate with the ADT plugin? >> >> Basically I want to be able to right-click my project in Eclipse >> (generated by CMake) and "Run as Android Application" and have it >> deploy to the device. What is required to make this happen? >> >> Also any idea how debugging will be impacted? >> >> Thanks. > >No help or advice on this? >-- > >Powered by www.kitware.com > >Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: >http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ > >Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more >information on each offering, please visit: > >CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html >CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html >CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html > >Visit other Kitware open-source projects at >http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > >Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake
