I have written an Eclpise plugin (an Error Parser for the CDT), and it works just fine in the debugger version of eclipse. However I cannot for the life of me figure out how to install the plugin into eclipse. I can export the plugin as a jar file, and it seems to export without errors. I put the plugin jar file into eclipse\dropins and it is not loaded by eclipse. If I add it to the plugins directory, no luck. The features directory also seems to ignore my plugin.
So I thought, OK, I'll try installing it through the GUI. So I browse to where the plugin archive is and add it as a local update site, but eclipse complains there is no plugin there.
I'm frustrated. Please help.