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CDT doesn't save project environment variables [message #1792573]

Thu, 19 July 2018 15:17

Peter Watkins

Messages: 4
Registered: February 2011

Junior Member

When I create a project environment variable using: Right-click on project->Properties->C/C++ Build->Environment->Add.. and add an environment variable setting, it doesn't persist to the next Eclipse session. In fact, CDT doesn't even write the setting to .project or .cproject.

Is anyone else running into this? Have you found any workarounds? Do you know if there are some tags I can manually add to .cproject?

[Updated on: Thu, 19 July 2018 15:28]

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Re: CDT doesn't save project environment variables [message #1792589 is a reply to message #1792573]

Fri, 20 July 2018 02:54

David Vavra

Messages: 1426
Registered: October 2012

Senior Member

Worked for me in Photon (CDT 9.5.0)

The values are saved in <project dir>/.settings/org.eclipse.cdt.core.prefs
at least for me

Are you sure you created it in all build configurations?
If not, are you sure you are looking at the configuration where you created it?
Is the <project dir>/.settings directory write protected?

This is the file (<project dir>/.settings/org.eclipse.cdt.core.prefs) after:

   Debug configuration :  FORB=something
   all configurations  : FERN=plant

eclipse.preferences.version=1
environment/project/0.1665564934.1965880154.292122073/FERN/delimiter=\:
environment/project/0.1665564934.1965880154.292122073/FERN/operation=append
environment/project/0.1665564934.1965880154.292122073/FERN/value=plant
environment/project/0.1665564934.1965880154.292122073/append=true
environment/project/0.1665564934.1965880154.292122073/appendContributed=true
environment/project/0.1665564934.1965880154.956013310/FERN/delimiter=\:
environment/project/0.1665564934.1965880154.956013310/FERN/operation=append
environment/project/0.1665564934.1965880154.956013310/FERN/value=plant
environment/project/0.1665564934.1965880154.956013310/append=true
environment/project/0.1665564934.1965880154.956013310/appendContributed=true
environment/project/0.1665564934.1965880154/FERN/delimiter=\:
environment/project/0.1665564934.1965880154/FERN/operation=append
environment/project/0.1665564934.1965880154/FERN/value=plant
environment/project/0.1665564934.1965880154/FORB/delimiter=\:
environment/project/0.1665564934.1965880154/FORB/operation=append
environment/project/0.1665564934.1965880154/FORB/value=something
environment/project/0.1665564934.1965880154/append=true
environment/project/0.1665564934.1965880154/appendContributed=true

Won't be easy to do this manually if you don't know how those numbers were obtained.

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Re: CDT doesn't save project environment variables [message #1792671 is a reply to message #1792589]

Fri, 20 July 2018 18:26

Peter Watkins

Messages: 4
Registered: February 2011

Junior Member

It is in all build configurations (there's only 1). I do see a previous value that got in <project dir>/.settings/org.eclipse.cdt.core.prefs somehow. However, setting a new environment variable doesn't result in a new entry in that file. The file isn't readonly. I see these errors in my Eclipse Error Log:

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Re: CDT doesn't save project environment variables [message #1792677 is a reply to message #1792671]

Sat, 21 July 2018 03:47

David Vavra

Messages: 1426
Registered: October 2012

Senior Member

Sounds like a search of bugzilla is called for.
There's an old one (from 2009) that is similar.
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=257495
Don't know if it's the same problem though.

You may need to file a new bug report.

You could also try deleting .settings/org.eclipse.cdt.core.prefs
or rename it
then try again.
Don't know why CDT would care.
Maybe something else has it open for write.
This is just a test not intended as a work around.

As I said, it works for me but I'm using Linux and not Windows.

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