Building LibreOffice from an IDE

> Hi,
>
> so I just pushed:
>
>  https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=core.git;a=commitdiff;h=ba99e296077e6bc6d6a153d01a45bd9ebe1a1d35
>
> to master. As it says, this allows building LibreOffice conveniently from an
> IDE -- kdevelop in this case -- with most of the usual features:
>
> - autocompletion
> - building a module from the IDE
> - building all of LibreOffice from the IDE
> - nondebug and debug build configs for the above
> - starting LibreOffice from the IDE
> - running unitchecks, slowchecks and subsequentchecks from the IDE
>
> It doesnt yet allow debugging from the IDE, but I guess it wouldnt be too hard to add.
>
> a few canveats:
> - autocompletion works, but:
>   * you should have a full build before starting with this as otherwise generated
>     headers (that is all of UNO) is missing
>   * for high level modules, parsing all of the header takes a _lot_ of time,
>      once that is done though, it seems to be working rather snappy
> - our toplevel Makefile.in with all its "you tell me to do foo, but I rather do
>   bar"-wrapping logic, does not handle "make unitcheck slowcheck
>   subsequentcheck" correctly, but that needs fixing there.
> - building objects for different libraries and targets (with different defines
>   and include paths) from one directory isnt something that kdevelop handles
>   well, but I dont yet know if that is of realpractical relevance for the
>   autocomplete.
>   This is a historic abomination anyway and should be killed with fire, see:
>   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70422
>
> If you want to try it out, do:
>
>  make kdevelop-ide-integration
>
> and open one of the *.kdev4 projects with kdevelop. Note that the kdevelop
> specific part of this is a mere ~150 lines of Python (half of that config
> templates), so this is a call to arms too:
>
>  You prefer Eclipse, Netbeans, MS Visual Studio, $YOURIDE?
>
>  Well, then add the same for those IDEs! ;)
>  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70414
>
> TBH I did this mostly to prove a point on how easy it is to get this IDE stuff
> out of gbuild, not because I crave to develop LibreOffice in a IDE.
>
>
> OTOH, now that I see the potential there ...
>
> Best,
>
> Bjoern
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