[news.eclipse.tools.cdt] Re: Adding a Preprocessor Definition

[Mike Jackson <imikejackson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2009-07-21 18:53:49 -0400, fstanley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (FStanley ) said:

> Hello,
>
> > I thought I was able to add a "symbol" or definition to the project 
> > properties so that if I have something like:
>
> > #ifdef FOO_DEFINED
> > 	#include <somefile.h>
> > #endif
>
> > all the code above would be active and indexed. But after adding the 
> > define in several locations the code is still marked as inactive.
>
> This is absolutely possible. I use it all the time. When you say you 
> are setting the properties, where exactly are you modifying?
>
> You should be at Project->Properties and select C/C++ Build->Settings. 
> Find under Tool settings, the preprocessor -D options. Add your 
> FOO_DEFINED here. This will add -DFOO_DEFINED to your build script.
>
> Or you could just add #define FOO_DEFINED to some include file and 
> include that file in main.cpp when you need it.
>
> ----
> Forrest Stanley
> Project Engineer
> NetBurner, Inc
> NBEclipse - Build a network enabled embedded device in one day with an 
> Eclipse interface!

Probably should have mentioned this was with a Makefile based project. 
I'll give this a try later today. Thanks for the sanity check.

Mike Jackson