Unable to import makefile project

[brandolph]

Our project uses CMake-generated makefiles.  I'm trying to import the makefile as a project, and am confused about the options.  Here are the steps I'm performing:
I select Project -> Open Other Workspace -> Makefile
I click the browse button to select the Makefile I wish to import
I select Scan for recursive makefiles (or not; does not seem to matter)
I select the wildcard filetypes of *.c, *.cpp, etc
I click OK, then I'm presented with a Project Properties screen.
At this point, I'm unable to find documentation on how to proceed. 
There are no files in my project; only the makefile.  If I select Ok at this point, an empty project is created, and the only file in it is the makefile.  It was my understanding that I should not add all my source files manually.

Can anyone advise on what I'm doing wrong?

[Graeme]

Slickedit help file neglects to say what type of make files it can import but I suspect it's only MS Visual Studio or GNU make files.
Anyway, from this thread you can see that cmake isn't supported but you can use cmake to generate a visual studio solution and import that.
http://community.slickedit.com/index.php/topic,8496.msg36427.html#msg36427

Also it might be useful to know that in the slickedit project properties dialog, on the files tab there is an "import" button that allows reading in a file that contains a list of files to be added to the project.

[brandolph]

Thank you for the info
I actually thought about trying this exact thing.  The problem I ran into is that my version of cmake won't generate Visual Studio files (I'm on Linux).  I may actually look into compiling my own cmake to see if I can build one to support this on Linux.

[Graeme]

Have you tried generating a gnu make file and importing that into slickedit?  According to this thread it partially works.
http://community.slickedit.com/index.php/topic,8496.msg36427.html#msg36427

Maybe you could debug MI_getFilesInMakefile() in makefile.e and see what it's doing.
It looks like slickedit can generate a gnu makefile from a gnu project so you could try doing that, then try importing it and see if the import works properly in that situation.