[cdt-debug-dev] Projectless development

[Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Most often I work on C/C++ projects where the makefile system
is already a done deal: automake, eCos, proprietary, etc. 

Common to all of these is that make happens from shell(bash typically).

What I'd like is to be able to do, is to communicate with CDT/Eclipse
via commands. 

# cdt foo.elf

Q: How hard can it be to make a Java(?) program that communicates with a
running instrance of CDT which sets up a Debug configuration if one does
not already exist? Is this fundamentally difficult?

Some hacks required:

- automatically create dummy project for such externally created debug 
  configurations.
- automatically create a new debug configuration for each full path
  executable launched in said fashion.

With a bit of encouragement and a few pointers I tempted to add this to
the Zylin Embedded CDT plugin.... :-)


My experience with CDT is that it pretty much supports projectless
debugging now. The Zylin Embedded CDT plugin allows projectless
debugging simply by not blocking the file browser from picking an
executable outside the selected project.




-- 
Øyvind Harboe
http://www.zylin.com