如何在Eclipse中组织C ++项目的依赖关系？

Question

What's the recommended way to import dependencies for a C++ project in Eclipse?

For example, say I'm making a library and the project looks like

MyLib
- MyLib.cpp

Now I want to add the Lua library which I guess could just be under my project. But the problem is it needs it's own build formula which it includes as a makefile

MyLib
- MyLib.cpp
- Lua
-- lua.h
-- lua.c
-- Makefile
-- lua.a

Or I can import Lua into a new project and have my library reference it in several ways to find the header, the library and so on

MyLib
- MyLib.cpp
Lua
- lua.h
- lua.c
- Makefile
- lua.a

The problem here is it takes a lot of fiddling with the build setups and after I get it right I'd like to be able to export everything someone needs to build my library so someone else can work on it. (Or even just so I can work on it on another system.)

I've seen a similar question about organizing Java projects and in that case they say to make a super project with other projects under it. But this advice assumes you're using Maven and I think the answer may be different for a C++ project. What is your advice?

Answer 1

I would suggest do external build system with for example make or even better cmake, and import project into Eclipse. I usually works like that and that's fine solution. You can clean/build your project by mouse from eclipse, debug and etc, but you just have to care about your build system by yourself. Your code can compile without Eclipse, with standard tools, which is big advantage.

If you know better solution I will very glad to hear :-)