[news.eclipse.tools.cdt] Re: Importing a dependent projects

[aegges@xxxxxx (Axel Mueller)]

Barzo wrote:

> Hi,

> I'm working on a project that depends on others.
> The folder structure is:

> MAIN_PROJECT_FOLDER
>  |- docs
>  |- include
>  |- lib
>  |- project
>  |    |- eclipse
>  |    |- MSVC
>  |
>  |- src
>  |- thirdparty
>  |     |- Sub Project 1
>  |     |       |- win32
>  |     |           |- MSVC
>  |     |- Sub Project 2
>  |     |       |- win32
>  |     |           |- MSVC
>  |     |- Sub Project 3
>  |     |       |- win32
>  |     |           |- MSVC
>  .     .
>  |     |- Sub Project n
>  |     |       |- win32
>  |     |           |- MSVC


> Each SubProject has its own makefile in the root folder while my project
> doesn't has one.

> Also each SubProject has a Win32 folder with a MS Visual Studio project
> file, so is very simple in VS to create a solution that contains all
> projects.

> I would like to do the same in eclipse.
> Creating a project for each "Sub Projects" (in a folder named 'eclipse'
> inside the win32 folder) and adding them to the workspace:

>  |- thirdparty
>  |     |- Sub Project 1
>  |     |       |- win32
>  |     |           |- MSVC
>  |     |           |- eclipse
>  |     |- Sub Project 2
>  |     |       |- win32
>  |     |           |- MSVC
>  |     |           |- eclipse

> I tried to do the following:

> 1. Create a new C++ Makefile Project into  SubProject1win32eclipse
> 2. Link a folder to the project

> But it doesn't work because "it overlaps the location of the project
> that contains the linked resource"!

> So, is a way to do this?

> Also doing this, in the future, will be easy to import all projects in
> one step.
Eclipse does not support "nested" projects i.e. a project in the subfolder 
of another project. There are several bugzilla requests to change this 
behavior but I guess it will never happen.
I suggest you do the following:

Eclipse_MAIN_PROJECT_FOLDER
 |- docs
 |- include
 |- lib
 |- project
 |    |- MSVC
Eclipse_Sub Project 1
 |     |       |- win32
 |     |           |- MSVC
Eclipse_Sub Project 2
 |     |       |- win32
 |     |           |- MSVC
Eclipse_Sub Project 3
 |     |       |- win32
 |     |           |- MSVC


Axel