Failing to add a builder to my eclipse project.

Question

Hi, I am trying to add a new builder to an eclipse project and I am having a problem.

The new builder is an external program.

This is what I have done: I have created a new program configuration in the external tools. After creating it I have tested it by making it run - it worked OK. Than, I have opened the project properties and under "Builders" section I have selected "import". I have selected my program configuration from the list.

The error was: "Specified container for launch configuration does not exist."

Does anybody knows what this error mean?

Answer 1

That kind of error has been seen for instance with m2eclipse, and then described in the bug 247940

It seems a custom builder could not be defined on an imported project (as opposed to a project directly created in the eclipse workspace).
So if your .project and .classpath are defined in an external directory (external to the eclipse workspace), that may be the cause... and this is not yet addressed by eclipse3.5.