Introduction

Make2NetBeans - utility for conversion of make-based projects to NetBeans projects
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April 2007

Developers:
Laboratory of Java technology, St. Petersburg University
- professor Vladimir Safonov, scientific advisor (v_o_safonov@mail.ru)
- Andrey Gubichev
- Arkady Galyash

The purpose of the utility is to port C / C++ projects to NetBeans by converting them into NetBeans C / C++ Pack projects.
To work with utility, please install module in NetBeans and select menu Tools->Make2NetBeans.
This action will start a wizard and display the Make2NetBeans window to specify:

- the path to existing makefile;
- the folder for a new project;
- the clean and build commands;
- the path to the executable (library).

After that please start the utility (by pressing Finish in wizard).
The result of the utility's is a new NetBeans project located in the specified folder.
Running "build project" or "clean project" is equivalent to running make in the source folder.
Project contains information about all source and header files of the project to be converted.

Make2NetBeans determines the include paths (i.e. the paths to header files) and macros by parsing all project makefiles.
Make2NetBeans divides project into subprojects, assuming that every folder with a makefile is a subproject.
Please note that the utility does not update, copy or move any of the project's source code files. It only creates the NetBeans project files and directories in the specified folder.

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