Let's say I have new book, The C++ programming lang and want to try the short code examples from it. Each is a separate executable, with its own main function. How to make kdevelop to work with those independent files easily?
When I setup a kdevelop project, its building process assumes there is only one final executable file. Yes, I'm a new kdevelop user, sorry for this probably naive question.
Regards
P.

How do you build your project? With cmake, you can just add new executables, like:

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add_executable(foo foo.cpp)
add_executable(bar bar.cpp)

in your CMakeLists.txt.

cmake, I'v added my exec and they are building nicely. Thanx. Is it possible to run the active file in the editor from the GUI? Or I should switch to the konsole and run it from there?
P.

The C++ runner can't do that, I'm afraid -- it's a bit of a convoluted concept which executable belongs to the file open in the editor. You have to select it by hand for each new executable you create.

So, as I understand the easiest way to deal (run) with many small executables in one project is to switch to konsole and run them by hand from command line. Right?
P.

Effectively that's probably the simplest way, yes. You could probably do something clever with dbus to have it launch the right file automatically, but it's almost certainly not worth it.