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Referencing other projects does nothing? [message #677211]

Tue, 07 June 2011 16:34

Eclipse User

The CDT help says somethig to the effect, that referencing other projects will make their files automatically accessible to the current project. I interpret this that if a project is referenced, the user does not have to go through a trouble of adding the referenced projects' dependencies by hand to the current project.

However referencing other projects seems to do nothing vis-a-vis their includes and libraries.

What is the proper way to do this?

Thanks.

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Re: Referencing other projects does nothing? [message #677390 is a reply to message #677211]

Wed, 08 June 2011 07:41

Eclipse User

Project Properties->C/C++ General->Export Settings

Re: Referencing other projects does nothing? [message #681873 is a reply to message #677390]

Thu, 09 June 2011 21:54

Eclipse User

Yes, that is a necessary part of referencing projects, the question stands.

Re: Referencing other projects does nothing? [message #681968 is a reply to message #681873]

Fri, 10 June 2011 02:57

Eclipse User

Quote:

The CDT help says somethig to the effect, that referencing other projects will make their files automatically accessible to the current project.

No. Referencing means that the referenced project will be build when the original project is build. Exporting symbols is something else (see my last comment).

Re: Referencing other projects does nothing? [message #682118 is a reply to message #681968]

Fri, 10 June 2011 08:55

Eclipse User

Let me rephrase the question: how one includes the source files and links the libraries from another project as a group, without copying that project's files into the current project, or without enumerating each of them. I call this "referencing another project", regardless of what other meaning there might be.

Thanks.

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[Updated on: Fri, 10 June 2011 08:57] by Moderator

Re: Referencing other projects does nothing? [message #683760 is a reply to message #682118]

Tue, 14 June 2011 07:34

Eclipse User

eight wrote on Fri, 10 June 2011 14:55

Let me rephrase the question: how one includes the source files and links the libraries from another project as a group, without copying that project's files into the current project, or without enumerating each of them. I call this "referencing another project", regardless of what other meaning there might be.

Thanks.

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Let me rephrase my answer
Project Properties->C/C++ General->Export Settings

Everything is explained here:
http://help.eclipse.org/helios/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.cdt.doc.user/tasks/cdt_t_proj_referenced_configs.htm

Re: Referencing other projects does nothing? [message #684643 is a reply to message #683760]

Wed, 15 June 2011 20:59

Eclipse User

Ah, thanks, I should have put that link in the first place. This brings us back to the issue. Let me be as concrete as possible.

There are two projects EightPlusPlusApp and EightPlusPlusParser. EightPlusPlusParser wants to include a ITracker.h from the EightPlusPlusApp project.

First this EightPlusPlusParser project says it references EightPlusPlusApp project like this:

index.php/fa/3048/0/

EightPlusPlusApp says it exports its entire src directory, which contains the said ITracker.h file:

index.php/fa/3045/0/

When the EightPlusPlusParser is built, it triggers the EightPlusPlusApp to build, so I assume that referencing at least partially works. However the compiler still cannot find the said ITracker.h:

index.php/fa/3046/0/

This is what I mean by saying "referencing other projects does nothing".

Thanks for looking into this, your help is appreciated.

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[Updated on: Wed, 15 June 2011 21:04] by Moderator

Re: Referencing other projects does nothing? [message #684743 is a reply to message #684643]

Thu, 16 June 2011 03:00

Eclipse User

Thanks for the detailed description. That helped a lot. In your EightPlusPlusParser project you must open Project Properties->C/C++ General and in the tab "References" you must select your EightPlusPlusApp project. This will then automatically add the EightPlusPlusApp include paths (see the Include tab).
The Project References on the first page of the Project Properties are "platform properties" and do know nothing about C/C++ projects. They are only important for the build order.
I think this is all correctly described in the help page. Nevertheless I must admit the double usage of project references is confusing.

Re: Referencing other projects does nothing? [message #684997 is a reply to message #684743]

Thu, 16 June 2011 11:32

Eclipse User

Thanks a lot. For the record:

Project Properties -> C/C++ General -> Path and Symbols -> References

does it!

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Re: Referencing other projects does nothing? [message #685662 is a reply to message #684743]

Fri, 17 June 2011 22:56

Eclipse User

Hi Axel,

Thanks to you, I got further away, but not to the finish line yet -- linking is still a problem. The referred project makes *.h and *.cpp files available to the main project via the export setting. The main project's build triggers the build of the referred project, which produces *.o files in a directory like REFERRED_PROJECT_LOCATION/Default/src (this is on OS X), of which the main project is not aware, and although it compiles, linking fails due to Undefined symbols (residing in the said object files).

Thanks again.

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Re: Referencing other projects does nothing? [message #685663 is a reply to message #684743]

Fri, 17 June 2011 22:56

Eclipse User

Re: Referencing other projects does nothing? [message #685664 is a reply to message #684743]

Fri, 17 June 2011 22:56

Eclipse User

Re: Referencing other projects does nothing? [message #685665 is a reply to message #684743]

Fri, 17 June 2011 22:57

Eclipse User

Re: Referencing other projects does nothing? [message #685743 is a reply to message #685665]

Sat, 18 June 2011 20:18

Eclipse User

After hours of mindless google, found this "solution": http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/m/112744/?srch=object+files#msg_112744 whereby object files are explicitly referenced through

Project->Properties->C/C++ Build->Settings->MacOS X C++ linker -> Miscellaneous -> Other Objects.

But this almost defeats the purpose of project referencing, isn't it? I could have simply defined my referenced objects as extern, instead of going through a trouble of referencing/exporting them?

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Re: Referencing other projects does nothing? [message #685752 is a reply to message #685743]

Sun, 19 June 2011 05:40

Eclipse User

What type is your referenced project? Does it build a library (static or shared)?

Re: Referencing other projects does nothing? [message #689137 is a reply to message #685752]

Sun, 26 June 2011 19:31

Eclipse User

At the moment it is executable. Due to this issue, I am thinking of extracting from it a piece that would build a static library, and make the rest into a CUTE test (since the executable part of it was only to test the shared part). However, I am bit hesitant to go that route, since it still will require referencing the static library using some mechanism, not supported by the refer/export facility in CDT.

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