Is there a (Linux) C++ IDE that can 'construct' a project from a makefile?

Question

I am working on a legacy C app which uses makefiles. I am more comfortable (and more productive) working from within an IDE, so I am looking for an IDE that can import the makefile and create a project.

Incidentally, these are hand written makefiles (not complicated ones like those generated by Autoconf). I am using Code::Blocks at the moment, but it seems it is unable to import makefiles ...

Answer 1

The last time I checked, Eclipse can import makefile projects or generate makefiles for you.

Answer 2

I think that most do. For a fact QTCreator and Eclipse can deal with makefile based projects appropriatedly.

In eclipse CDT (last one I have used) just create a C++ project specifying the current location of your project and tell it to use an empty makefile. That will create an Eclipse project that uses the existing makefile (untouched)

Answer 3

Unless you make some hard assumptions on what can and cannot happen in the make file, I doubt what you describe is even theoretically possible.