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Thu, 10 April 2008 12:04

Eclipse User

Hello Group,

I am compiling my project in eclipse and it is complaining

that the project directory "/project" does not exist.

When I look in the eclipse IDE I see some samename.d and samename.o
(samename is samename.cpp file) However when I look for the same file in
the command line I do not see those .d and .o files in the actual
directory.

Can someone please explain.

When I click on .d file it comes up with "resource /project does not exist"

Any pointers will be welcome.

Thanks.

nagrik

Re: What are .d files [message #253688 is a reply to message #253644]

Thu, 10 April 2008 15:49

Eclipse User

> When I click on .d file it comes up with "resource /project does not exist"

This indicates that the Eclipse resource tree is out of sync with the
file system. You should refresh the project (select the project node and
press F5). Whenever you change files or directories of your project
outside Eclipse you need to perform this manual refresh.

--
Anton Leherbauer
Wind River CDT Team, Austria

Re: What are .d files [message #253692 is a reply to message #253644]

Thu, 10 April 2008 15:50

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: wharley.bea.com

"Nagrik" <vnagrik@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:4d4da0538d4e96ec19b63aca457b98c6$1@www.eclipse.org...
> Hello Group,
>
> I am compiling my project in eclipse and it is complaining
>
> that the project directory "/project" does not exist.
>
> When I look in the eclipse IDE I see some samename.d and samename.o
> (samename is samename.cpp file) However when I look for the same file in
> the command line I do not see those .d and .o files in the actual
> directory.
>
> Can someone please explain.
>
> When I click on .d file it comes up with "resource /project does not
> exist"
>
> Any pointers will be welcome.

In the C platforms I've worked on, a .d file is a dependency file: it
contains the output of something like makedeps, which has parsed the .cpp
file and determined what other (.h) files it depends upon. The .d file
usually gets #included into the makefile, so that the make tool can track
what it needs to incrementally rebuild.

It's been a while since I worked with C, so maybe that extension means
something else now.

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