January Meetup - Stephen Kelly : Toward better CMake IDE integration

Dear C++ Community Berlin,

we wish you a Happy New Year!

For our January Meetup we have Stephen Kelly from Ableton speaking about a very interesting CMake technique to integration CMake into IDEs.

Abstract: CMake provides "generators" for creating files understood by user tools such as IDEs. In many cases, this provides enough information to build a C++ code model for project files, but provides little information to create an effective model of the cmake code. However, some tools manage to provide native support for CMake code and offer features such as syntax highlighting, semantic code-completion and other more advanced features such as 'add file to target'. This talk will examine the status quo and propose a design of new CMake features to make 3rd-party IDE integration easier to maintain, more reliable and more feature-full.