CEDET: Setup

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Setting up CEDET

Setting up a tool as large and complex as CEDET can seem daunting. Fortunately, a minimal CEDET initialization can take up only a couple lines of code in your .emacs file. If you are brave and enjoy customizing your CEDET past this, then you are in luck as there are more options and small features to play with than anyone sane person might want.

Alex Ott has written a great article called A Gentle Introduction to CEDET that shows both the simple CEDET configuration process, and a wide array of customizations that helps tune your Emacs for programming the smart way.

The image to the right shows the CEDET internal package and revision testing output. Making sure all the package revisions needed are accurate is important, and fully automatic.

Basic Setup

Step 1

Download CEDET from the Sourceforge downloads page. Choose the version from the side-bar on the left of this page.

Step 2

Use your favorite tool to unpack CEDET into your favorite place to install new Emacs Lisp packages. The .tar.gz file will automatically create a directory called cedet-VERSION/ for all the sources, where VERSION is the version of the package you downloaded.

Step 3

Build CEDET. On a unix based system such as Linux, you can do it using make.

  make EMACS=emacs

If you are on Windows, and or don't have make for some reason, you can use CEDET's built in project management system to force CEDET to bootstrap itself. You can initiate the build process like this:

  cd cedet-1.0pre6

  emacs -Q -l cedet-build.el -f cedet-build

For more on the build process, see the INSTALL file in the root of the CEDET distribution.

Step 4

Configure CEDET in your .emacs file by adding code like this:

(load-file "~/cedet-1.0pre6/common/cedet.el")
(global-ede-mode 1)                      ; Enable the Project management system
(semantic-load-enable-code-helpers)      ; Enable prototype help and smart completion 
(global-srecode-minor-mode 1)            ; Enable template insertion menu

For more simple configuration options, see the INSTALL file in the root of the CEDET distribution.

Step 5

Still confused?

Downloading CEDET

All the CEDET tools are available from a single distribution file.

CEDET is currently driving toward a 1.0 release. Try out a pre-release and send in bug reports on the build process, or anything else to the mailing list.

Try out cedet-1.0pre6.tar.gz.

After building CEDET, consider adding your results to the prerelease tested configuration page by adding your own platform information.

Please Note:

If you encounter build problems with a CEDET release, those issues may have already been fixed in CVS! CEDET has an active community of users that help identify and fix these issues quickly. You can check the mailing list archives or just try the CVS version directly.

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