Compile Cygwin project in Eclipse

Question

I have a c++ Project that was compiled with the cygwin toolchain, now I want to use Eclipse to compile and test it. If I create a project (cygwin toolchain is set in the options) I get the error:

make: *** No rule to make target `all'. 7wWin  line 0 C/C++ Problem

In Cygwin I use:

cd $BUILDDIR
make
make install

Can Eclipse create it's own makefile? And how to setup that. Better would be a good tutorial how to compile a Cygwin c++ project with Eclipse.

Answer 1

Check the following pages:

• http://homepage.cs.uri.edu/courses/fall2007/csc406/Handouts/eclipseTutorial.pdf
• http://wikimix.blogspot.com/2006/11/using-eclipse-as-c-development_05.html
• http://www.benjaminarai.com/benjamin_arai/index.php?display=/eclipsecygwingcc.php