I wish to use "C" legacy project in the Eclipse. In the project it require "autoreconf
-vi" followed by "./configure" before make to start. My problem is I am not able to do "autoreconf -vi" and "./configure" from the eclipse.
Thanks
Arpit
You should try enabling the autotools features from the Eclipse Linuxtools Plugin: if you have CDT, the Linuxtools plugin should already be available in your eclipse environment. However, you need to enable features from it:
use the following menu: Help / Install New Software
in the search box type "linux", find the plugin and
check the box (+ OK)
finally select at least Linux "Tools/Autotools support for CDT" (also call graph, gcov, gprof, ltt could be interesting but not needed for your problem)
Note: if you do not already have the plugin available, detailed instructions with an update URL are available in the Linux Tools Project/PluginInstallHelp wiki page.
Once you have this plugin installed, you can:
Convert an existing project by: File / New / Convert to a C/C++ Autotools Project / Next / Next / Finish
Edit the project properties as needed: Project / Properties / Autotools / Configure Settings, e.g., to specify configure flags in the advanced tab, platform specifiers for cross compilation etc.
Hope it'll help.
Cheers,
Christophe.
= They did not know it was impossible, so they did it! --Mark Twain =
The use of "autoconf" and similar hacks is no longer required. They were needed to port C code to platforms that failed to properly support ISO C89, but did made a reasonable attaempt. We're 21 years later and such systems are quite rare.
So, you should check for the use of Autoconf macros and remove those.
Scrapping ./configure might be harder, but it's also possible you might not need it at all - it could exist only as a result of autoconf.
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Let's say I have a number of settings (GCC compiler 9.3.0 built from source, as the distribution I have to use has a very old one, along with environment setup) for a new Kit in QtCreator.
I have managed to setup an environment for compilation and execution of compiled binaries, and made a script to make it work (like qmake -nocache -recursive/make/sudo make install, direct execution of g++, and other stuff).
One thing that script can't do at the moment, is that it cannot create a kit for QtCreator with new compilers and environment being set as required, so after running a script, its user has to go through setting it up himself through GUI, which is bad, because this can cause misconfiguration.
This thing I'm trying to create is going to be used by around ~200 people in my company, so leaving readme.txt with instructions just doesn't go well enough for me - I don't want running around fixing missing "{" and "}" in Environment description in created Kits, and other stuff.
Are there ways to create Kits for QtCreator automatically from command line? Maybe, there's some files to edit?
I've looked into this one a few years back (I wanted to do something similar for registering Buildroot toolchains automatically in QtCreator), and I was unable to find an off the shelf solution. So i think there are 2 ways to implement this:
a) Implementing a command line utility the manipulate the ~/.config/QtProject/qtcreator/{toolchains,profiles}.xml files. Maybe by (re)using the existing C++ implementation within QtCreator, or just re-implement it ie. in Python. Back than I didn't start to work on this as there was no real business need.
b) Switching to qbs, as qbs has support for setting up toolchains from the command line ( see: https://doc.qt.io/qbs/cli-setup-toolchains.html)
If you decide to go with solution a), please let me know and maybe we can partner up to implement it.
Check out the command line sdktool bundled with QtCreator:
The SDK tool can be used to set up Qt versions, tool chains, devices
and kits in Qt Creator.
There still is a lot of knowledge about Qt Creator internals required
to use this tool!
I haven't tried it yet, but I did find the executable under Tools/QtCreator/libexec/qtcreator subdirectory of the Qt Creator installation directory. ./sdktool --help works for me under Linux.
I had loaded the project to Eclipse but when I open the .cpp file, it like to open a text file.
Anyone know how to display the code-view in eclipse?
Please support.
Thank you so much.
I cannot find C/C++ in Window -> Preferences
Then you have no CDT installed – I suppose you got the version direct from the initial download page, but that's actually the java package – there's a link 'download packages' below, where you would have found the C++ package. Not too obvious, admitted.
Never mind, you don't need to re-install: Help -> About will reveil you your installed version's name ('Kepler', 'Luna', ...); via Help -> Install new packages you can add CDT plugin to your installation. Select under work with your release version of eclipse repository, e. g. http://download.eclipse.org/releases/photon.
Minimally, you need: C/C++ Development Tools, other plugins might be useful, too, like standalone debugger, call graph visualisation, unit testing support, auto tools support (configure, make; especially under linux), possibly LLVM support (if you want to use clang compiler), ...
My issue had been fixed.
Just do below steps in ubuntu:
Go to
https://www.eclipse.org/cdt/downloads.php and download newest CDT(C/C++ Develop Tool) version.
Copy the download file
eclipse-cpp-2018-12-R-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz
to your folder in Ubuntu.
Extract
eclipse-cpp-2018-12-R-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz
Run execute eclipse file -> Done.
We have a C++ project we want to enhance using Eclipse on Linux (CentOS 7). We have one Linux VM with Eclipse and CDT (a C++ plug-in) installed. Using CMake, we generated make files for the project and brought it up in Eclipse (File → Import → General → Existing Projects into Workspace). From there we need to do some fixes to make it compile C++ 11 code. We do this via the "Properties → C/C++ General → Preprocessor Include Paths, Macros etc." page. It all builds and works fine.
We created new Linux VMs with the same version of Linux. We installed Eclipse (Oxygen) and installed the CDT plug-in. We followed all the same steps as above, except in these new VMs, there is no "C/C++ General → Preprocessor Include Paths, Macros etc." option in the Properties dialog. We can get the code to compile as C++ 11, but the IDE itself doesn't recognize C++ 11 and marks most of the code as errors. If we had the "Preprocessor Include Paths, Macros etc." page, we could makes the necessary changes, but for the life of us, we can't figure out why it doesn't show up in the new VMs. Both Eclipse installs have the same plug-ins (one, namely, CDT).
Is there something we're missing? Is there another way to access the options that the missing page allows?
UPDATE
Perhaps some visual will help. Here is what the Properties page looks like when opened on the original Linux VM:
Here is what the Properties page looks like when opened in the new VMs:
As you can see, in the second image, there is no "Preprocessor Include Paths, Macros, etc." option underneath "C/C++ General". That is the problem. Without that page, we can't do several things to the project we need to to get it to operate correctly.
I can't really be proud of our solution to this problem. The version of Eclipse that works is Oxygen.1a Release (4.7.1a). The "latest and greatest" release of Eclipse (at the time) was Oxygen.2 Release (4.7.2). We downloaded and installed 4.7.1a and it worked. There must be a defect in 4.7.2 that prevents it from correctly recognizing C++ 11 code.
Oxygen.1a 4.7.1a imports the project perfectly and shows up all the options we need to make changes and get the application to compile and run correctly.
I just did the default Java (8) installation of Eclipse on my Windows (8, yikes) laptop, and it seems to work just fine. However, I'm not as good at Java as I am with C and C++, and for some work it's more expeditious to use C/C++ than Java.
Unfortunately, the Eclipse installer for Windows doesn't make it very easy to set up Eclipse for C/C++. It looks like I'd be fine with Linux or BSD, but then I'd have to scrounge up another laptop (because I need the mobility) and install Linux or BSD on it. Yes, I need to leave Windows on this machine, so Windows hate isn't going to help me.
My lazy web search turned up this article: "Install Eclipse for C++ Development on Windows 7 64-bit". Is there a better installation guide than that, or does anyone care to describe the process in more detail?
Even though you have CDT features installed, you need to install a GCC compiler for windows such as MinGW or Cygwin. Once you install them, add the 'bin' folder in the installed path to the environment variables and then restart eclipse. You should now see MinGW compiler when you select "Create new C Project". After this step, proceed with your C programs and this should resolve your problems.
You will have to install a GCC compiler in your PC and then link it to the project each time you create a project. This can be done while you create a new project, or even after you have done so. You can download MinGW compiler through the following link
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/latest/download?source=files
Once you have downloaded the compiler and installed it, it can be linked through the following steps:
i. While creating a new project, choose MinGW GCC compiler in the tool chains.
ii. Once you have finished creating a project, go to Project->Properties.
iii. Look for Run/Debug Settings in the left panel.
iv. Click on the New tab and select C/C++ Application.
v. Look for Environment option.
vi. Click on the New tab.
vii. Type "PATH" in the Name bar and fill the Value bar with the path of the compiler. For me, its C:\MinGW\bin.
vii. Click on OK and you are done!
The instructions you link to have you install Eclipse IDE for C/C++ developers which will work fine to get a C/C++ development environment up.
If you would instead like to use your EXISTING installation of Eclipse and add C++ Development Tooling (CDT) you can launch Eclipse and then use Install New Software to install the C/C++ Development Tools
I'm trying to use Qt4 using the Code::Blocks IDE. I'm running Linux Mint and I'm getting some errors. I looked around and found some people that had the same problem as me, but I can't seem to get their solutions working on my computer.
I installed Qt4 using the command
sudo apt-get install qt4-dev-tools
And when I type whereis qt4, I get qt4: /usr/lib/qt4 /usr/include/qt4 /usr/share/qt4
If I select "Create new Projet" in Code::Blocks and Select Qt4 project, it asks for Qt's location, which is $(#qt4) by default. If I click next, it says Code::Blocks doesn't know the "qt4" variable and gives me a prompt to set the base location, the include directory, etc.
Since I don't have any idea as to what I should be putting in there since nothing works (either it says "QTCore cannot be found in the specified directory", or the "lib" directory couldn't be found, etc.).
I tried what was posted on this forum: http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=18210, but it didn't solve my problem and I get the same errors.
In the "/usr/share/qt4" directory, there's a link to the "include" directory, but not to the "lib" directory.
I'm pretty new to Linux and all of this, so I'd like it if the answer was very detailed explaining what I did wrong / what I have to do.
Install the QtSDK
As a first step I would advise you to download directly the QtSDK, from the project site here.
Note: You could also use the precompiled version for your Mint version,
but in my personal experience, when working with external SDK,
you have more independence in development, it also allows you to work
freely with multiple versions of Qt simultaneously without move any
dependence of your OS.
You can follow the graphics steps to install the SDK, I advise you to check the option "download source", later this is going to be used for debugging code, and if necessary will allow the recompilation of some classes.
Now your QtSDK is installed on the folder eg "/usr/local"
So, all references inside your IDE should refer to this location.
Install the C::B
You can use the version available in "Software Manager"
Configure the C::B
When we start a new project and asks the location of our SDK we indicate this directory /usr/local/QtSDK/Desktop/Qt/4.8.1/gcc
Now the project is ready!
Note: "/usr/local" and "4.8.1" are variables depending on where
and what version you have installed.
Is very likely that your build directory, is not correctly assigned in "Settings->Compiler and Debugger->Toolchain ...->Compiler's Directory"
will be the default "usr" which should be replaced by "/usr/bin"
Now, when compiling with the standard project ".pro" and if your project has the requirement to use a "moc" tool strategy, the simplest way to do that, is use a customized Makefile, with all stages of compilation.
To learn how to make a customized makefile, you can read this answer.
And although I would advise again:
Although that CB is an optimal environment for working with wxWidgets, and C/C++ in general, I personally think that in the case of working with Qt, QtCreator provides a development environment more native and optimized to work with your projects QT.