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How to automatically compile and run mydsl application from eclipse? [message #1807730]

Thu, 06 June 2019 21:27

Željko Kovačević

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Registered: March 2019

Junior Member

I designed a small DSL in Xtext and wrote a sample DSL application that is successfully converted to C++ code by using Xtend code generator. What I would like is to be able to click "Run" inside Eclipse and then to automatically compile the generated .cpp file and run it. How to do it?

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Re: How to automatically compile and run mydsl application from eclipse? [message #1807735 is a reply to message #1807730]

Fri, 07 June 2019 05:39

Christian Dietrich

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Registered: July 2009

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for me this looks more like a question for the CDT forum.

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Re: How to automatically compile and run mydsl application from eclipse? [message #1807739 is a reply to message #1807730]

Fri, 07 June 2019 06:50

Karsten Thoms

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Registered: July 2009
Location: Dortmund, Germany

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Adding actions to the menu: https://www.vogella.com/tutorials/EclipseCommands/article.html

Then the code has to be compiled => Usually by configuring a project builder => Consult Eclipse CDT

And finally, what you get is an external program that you need to launch the program by creating a launch configuration and execute it. See e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/a/37330757/512227

But as Christian said, all of this is not related to Xtext. These are questions for Eclipse Platform & CDT.

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