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How to import the NEST CMake project into CLion
How to import the NEST CMake project into CLion
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@gtrensch Is this issue still relevant or did you manage to import NEST into CLion using CMake?
I tried to get it working together with @med-ayssar , but we didn't manage to get it running as we couldn't find a way to tell CMake in CLion which Python environment to use. Did someone find a solution for this already?
You don't need CMake to work to develop for NEST in CLion though. Running CMake from the command line once and then working with Make inside CLion works totally fine. It might make sense to write down the steps to also debug NEST in CLion though, where would be a good place to do that?
@med-ayssar https://github.com/nest/nest-simulator/blob/master/doc/htmldoc/developer_space/workflows/nest_with_ides.rst Let's add a new entry for CLion there and add the debugging workflow.
I figured out a way to get it working, however I am unsure how clean and universal the solution is.
In the CMake options add the -DPython_ROOT_DIR= option and set it to the bin directory of your python environment. This enables CMake's FindPython module to locate the python interpreter.
@terhorstd Should this work in most cases or did it just work in my case?
@JanVogelsang, can you do this? Maybe we need another person with clion to try this. Does someone come to mind?
In order to work on this ticket, someone needs a paid-for license for CLion. Educational licenses are for classroom use only and open source licenses are only for volunteer based projects, not for projects funded by organisations or paying their core developers. Unless some NEST developer(s) actively use CLion and therefore have a paid license, I suggest we close this as "won't fix".
I was developing NEST as part of my master's thesis, unpaid and purely educational, and was thus using the student license. I can share my experience, but don't know of any of the paid developers that uses CLion.
closing as won't fix - please reopen if interested developers want to investigate further.
