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I downloaded and tried to compile this project: http://symas.com/mdb/
It's straight C.
I installed CDT, MinGW (on Windows), selected New / Makefile project
with existing code. Selected the C/C++ perspective, selected the
project, and hit Project / Build project. I get this error:
!MESSAGE Internal error building project mdb configuration Default
!STACK 0
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.Path.append(Path.java:261)
at
org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.internal.buildmodel.BuildDescription.addOutputs(BuildDescription.java:1028)
at
org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.internal.buildmodel.BuildDescription.calculateOutputs(BuildDescription.java:1139)
at
org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.internal.buildmodel.BuildDescription.handleMultiSteps(BuildDescription.java:837)
at
org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.internal.buildmodel.BuildDescription.initDescription(BuildDescription.java:752)
at
org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.internal.buildmodel.BuildDescription.init(BuildDescription.java:814)
at
org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.internal.buildmodel.DefaultBuildDescriptionFactory.createBuildDescription(DefaultBuildDescriptionFactory.java:45)
at
org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.buildmodel.BuildDescriptionManager.createBuildDescription(BuildDescriptionManager.java:107)
at
org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.core.InternalBuildRunner.invokeBuild(InternalBuildRunner.java:104)
at
org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.internal.core.CommonBuilder.build(CommonBuilder.java:753)
etc...
I probably failed to set something in the project properties, but I
don't know what.