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What if CDT doesn't detect the toolchain? [message #227169] Fri, 21 November 2008 20:58 Go to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Platform: Win XP with Eclipse Ganymede and CDT installed. I yanked the
MINGW installation I had and replaced it with the one from nuwen.net
(which bundles the Boost library), putting the new MINGW installation in
a different directory than the old one had occupied. I checked that
gcc.exe etc. are on the system path, but Eclipse is showing only
"--Other Toolchain--", and if I use a project-specific configuration to
pick the GNU toolchain, it tells me it's not supported on my system.

I've done a -clean restart of Eclipse, uninstalled/reinstalled the CDT
stuff, but nothing is working. I've seen posts where people installed
the nuwen distro and then Ganymede and got it to work, so I don't think
it's a compatibility problem. Any ideas?

/Paul
Re: [SOLVED] What if CDT doesn't detect the toolchain? [message #227183 is a reply to message #227169] Sun, 23 November 2008 11:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> Platform: Win XP with Eclipse Ganymede and CDT installed. I yanked the
> MINGW installation I had and replaced it with the one from nuwen.net
> (which bundles the Boost library), putting the new MINGW installation in
> a different directory than the old one had occupied. I checked that
> gcc.exe etc. are on the system path, but Eclipse is showing only
> "--Other Toolchain--", and if I use a project-specific configuration to
> pick the GNU toolchain, it tells me it's not supported on my system.
>
> I've done a -clean restart of Eclipse, uninstalled/reinstalled the CDT
> stuff, but nothing is working. I've seen posts where people installed
> the nuwen distro and then Ganymede and got it to work, so I don't think
> it's a compatibility problem. Any ideas?
>

I found a reference (http://cdt-devel-faq.wikidot.com/) to the detection
mechanism. (Took me a while to find the right search terms.) The MinGW
bundle from nuwen.net does not mess with the Windows registry, and in
particular does not have an uninstaller. I did not install it in any of
the specific locations where CDT checks, either. So I faked the
uninstall registry key and CDT found it. Maybe this will help someone else.

/Paul
Re: [SOLVED] What if CDT doesn't detect the toolchain? [message #227197 is a reply to message #227183] Mon, 24 November 2008 02:38 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Paul A. Rubin schrieb:

> I found a reference (http://cdt-devel-faq.wikidot.com/) to the detection
> mechanism. (Took me a while to find the right search terms.) The MinGW
> bundle from nuwen.net does not mess with the Windows registry, and in
> particular does not have an uninstaller. I did not install it in any of
> the specific locations where CDT checks, either. So I faked the
> uninstall registry key and CDT found it. Maybe this will help someone
> else.

I created the empty directories c:\MinGW\bin ( less work ;) ).
Re: [SOLVED] What if CDT doesn't detect the toolchain? [message #227204 is a reply to message #227197] Mon, 24 November 2008 08:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Heiko Lechner wrote:
> Paul A. Rubin schrieb:
>
>> I found a reference (http://cdt-devel-faq.wikidot.com/) to the
>> detection mechanism. (Took me a while to find the right search
>> terms.) The MinGW bundle from nuwen.net does not mess with the
>> Windows registry, and in particular does not have an uninstaller. I
>> did not install it in any of the specific locations where CDT checks,
>> either. So I faked the uninstall registry key and CDT found it.
>> Maybe this will help someone else.
>
> I created the empty directories c:\MinGW\bin ( less work ;) ).

Drat! Never occurred to me to do that.
Re: [SOLVED] What if CDT doesn't detect the toolchain? [message #228400 is a reply to message #227183] Sun, 04 January 2009 07:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: soulidol.gmail.com

Would you mind paste the content of detection machanism you found. I can't
open the link you give below. I'm trying to use eclipse with cross platform
tool chain for arm, but those couldn't be found in eclipse supported tool
chain list window, so I wanna find what I can do to add those cross tool
chain into the list.

"Paul A. Rubin" <rubin@msu.edu> ??????:ggc1pi$s75$1@build.eclipse.org...
> Paul A. Rubin wrote:
>> Platform: Win XP with Eclipse Ganymede and CDT installed. I yanked the
>> MINGW installation I had and replaced it with the one from nuwen.net
>> (which bundles the Boost library), putting the new MINGW installation in
>> a different directory than the old one had occupied. I checked that
>> gcc.exe etc. are on the system path, but Eclipse is showing only "--Other
>> Toolchain--", and if I use a project-specific configuration to pick the
>> GNU toolchain, it tells me it's not supported on my system.
>>
>> I've done a -clean restart of Eclipse, uninstalled/reinstalled the CDT
>> stuff, but nothing is working. I've seen posts where people installed
>> the nuwen distro and then Ganymede and got it to work, so I don't think
>> it's a compatibility problem. Any ideas?
>>
>
> I found a reference (http://cdt-devel-faq.wikidot.com/) to the detection
> mechanism. (Took me a while to find the right search terms.) The MinGW
> bundle from nuwen.net does not mess with the Windows registry, and in
> particular does not have an uninstaller. I did not install it in any of
> the specific locations where CDT checks, either. So I faked the uninstall
> registry key and CDT found it. Maybe this will help someone else.
>
> /Paul
Re: [SOLVED] What if CDT doesn't detect the toolchain? [message #228409 is a reply to message #227183] Sun, 04 January 2009 07:59 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: soulidol.gmail.com

Would you mind paste the content of detection machanism you found. I can't
open the link you give below. I'm trying to use eclipse with cross platform
tool chain for arm, but those couldn't be found in eclipse supported tool
chain list window, so I wanna find what I can do to add those cross tool
chain into the list.

"Paul A. Rubin" <rubin@msu.edu> ??????:ggc1pi$s75$1@build.eclipse.org...
> Paul A. Rubin wrote:
>> Platform: Win XP with Eclipse Ganymede and CDT installed. I yanked the
>> MINGW installation I had and replaced it with the one from nuwen.net
>> (which bundles the Boost library), putting the new MINGW installation in
>> a different directory than the old one had occupied. I checked that
>> gcc.exe etc. are on the system path, but Eclipse is showing only "--Other
>> Toolchain--", and if I use a project-specific configuration to pick the
>> GNU toolchain, it tells me it's not supported on my system.
>>
>> I've done a -clean restart of Eclipse, uninstalled/reinstalled the CDT
>> stuff, but nothing is working. I've seen posts where people installed
>> the nuwen distro and then Ganymede and got it to work, so I don't think
>> it's a compatibility problem. Any ideas?
>>
>
> I found a reference (http://cdt-devel-faq.wikidot.com/) to the detection
> mechanism. (Took me a while to find the right search terms.) The MinGW
> bundle from nuwen.net does not mess with the Windows registry, and in
> particular does not have an uninstaller. I did not install it in any of
> the specific locations where CDT checks, either. So I faked the uninstall
> registry key and CDT found it. Maybe this will help someone else.
>
> /Paul
Re: [SOLVED] What if CDT doesn't detect the toolchain? [message #228424 is a reply to message #228409] Mon, 05 January 2009 08:30 Go to previous message
Eclipse UserFriend
news://news.eclipse.org wrote:
> Would you mind paste the content of detection machanism you found.

I think that would be a copyright violation.

> I can't
> open the link you give below.

Is this link any better? http://cdt-devel-faq.wikidot.com/#toc27

> I'm trying to use eclipse with cross platform
> tool chain for arm, but those couldn't be found in eclipse supported tool
> chain list window, so I wanna find what I can do to add those cross tool
> chain into the list.
>

The link gives mechanisms by which CDT looks for MinGW and Cygwin
(only). Is your tool chain one of those two?
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