[cdt-dev] More setting up questions..

[David Ryan <Oobles@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

My experiences so far..  some questions and suggestions..

I have been using cygwin, make and an external CVS(wincvs) to manage a 
project for an embedded system.  I thought I'd give eclipse a go as we 
now have a gdb stub available and I thought eclipse IDE and debugging 
would work nicely.

I started by trying to create a project over the same directory I was 
already using.  Eclipse picked up this nicely, however it did not pick 
up the fact that the project was shared using CVS.  I don't know a way 
of setting this up in eclipse (is there a way?), so backed up the 
project files and used the "check out as" function to recheck out the 
project from within eclipse.

Disaster struck when I messed up a directory location and my full 
development environment and projects were quickly wiped by eclipse after 
asking if the current files should be removed.  Suggestion, maybe this 
should tell you to remove the files?  I didn't lose much but it was only 
a small slip.  I misinterpreted the location to check out to as being 
the base path, not the actual path of the project to check out.  Ouch!

With a fresh project directory setup, I checked out my projects again 
from within eclipse.  I'm using CDT 1.2.0.23 which I updated tonight.  I 
noticed that everytime I did a checkout into my clean directory it 
continued to ask if I wanted to remove the directory.  I checked and it 
seems to create the directory,  then want to remove it again before 
recreating the directory and checking out files.  This time I was 
however more careful with my choice of locations.

I then worked on setting up to compile.  Now, although I'm on windows 
the project make files are all unix based as I work in a team and unix 
is the more common environment.  After some playing around I settled on 
a build command something like this:

c:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -i makestart /usr/proj/myLib

where makestart was a script which would setup the environment and 
change to the directory passed. Can anyone suggest a better method of 
doing this?

I was then able to build many of the projects, however, we're using an 
older GCC tool chain which doesn't like DOS format files.  So now I'm 
getting parse errors.   I have looked through the CVS settings in 
eclipse and can't see a way of forcing Unix format when checking out 
files.  Is there a way of setting this?

Currently, the only way I can think of solving this is to use wincvs to 
checkout files to the same location.  I'm not sure how eclipse's team 
features will respond to this?

Once these issues are resolved I should be able to have a go at the 
gdb-stub, which has really been the whole point of this excersize, so 
any help on the questions scattered through there would be greatly 
appreciated.

Thanks,
David.