Hi! I don't have a definite answer to your questions but I inlined
some thoughts below:
On 2015-10-12 10:53 AM, Azab, Mohamed
wrote:
Hi,
I am having a wrong behavior when using the
C/C++ General > Paths and Symbols > Libraries tab.
If you either added a workspace path or an
absolute path to a library file, it gets added as -l option
under C/C++ Build > Settings > Tool Settings > C
Linker > Libraries which causes the linker to fail as the
-l flag should hold only the name of the library.
I usually use C Linker > Libraries for -lfoo and C Linker >
Miscellaneous for /usr/lib/foo.so
This does the right thing AFAIK.
As a user, it was always odd and confusing to me that there are two
ways of setting the libraries and includes for build: Through the
C/C++ Build > Settings > C Linker and through C/C++ General
> Paths and Symbols. I find that setting options on the tools
(C/C++ Build) is more intuitive than per language (C/C++ General
> Paths and Symbols) because it gives you a better idea of how it
will affect the build commands.
Is there a reason why the “Libraries” tab
allow the user to browse for the library? Shouldn’t we give
just a text box (like on -l option case) to not to offer
something that doesn’t work?
I agree, this is how it is in C Linker > Libraries and it works
fine.
Another way to handle this would be to add
two entries: The library name with the -l option, and the
library path with the -L option. But I looked into the
implementation and it seems that it is not straightforward to
change it to add two entries instead of one though.
I think another option would be to remove this UI. I'm not sure how
useful it is anymore. It used to be useful in case you were not
using the "managed build" and you wanted to add some include paths
to pass to the indexer. But now there is also "C/C++ General >
Preprocessor Include Paths, Marcos etc" for that.
Marc-Andre
Thanks,
Mohamed Azab
Software Development Engineer
Mentor Graphics
ESD | CodeBench
_______________________________________________
cdt-dev mailing list
cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from this list, visit
https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cdt-dev
|
