Now, I started using the plugins of the Linux Tool Project which seem to have improved a lot! They provide plugins for Change. Log, Valgrind, and in particular for autotools based projects. Since I haven't seen any tutorial for using the autotools plugin, I thought I could write one; well, it's not that difficult to use the autotools plugin, but I hope it can help : -)Of course, first of all, you need to install the autotools plugin, and I personally prefer the update site method, using http: //download.
Remember that the linux tools are based on CDT plugin. For this tutorial, we will use an already autotools based project (for the moment, the autotools plugin can create an autotools based project, but without any templates). We will use the GNU Hello program, so you can download the last version from the web site. Then you can untar the contents in a directory (say tmp).
Now, it's time to create a new project in eclipse, in particular, a GNU C Autotools Project (or a C++ project if you're project uses C++): Let's call it . You will now have an empty autotools based C project. Now, let's import the hello package from the directory where we had untarred it, by using !
For instance, the configure's - -prefix option: The suffix of the installed program. Since we build the program for development and for debugging, let's make sure to turn off C compiler optimizations (which make debugging a pain): You can then check that debugging is already turned on, as also '- Wall' option (to report all warnings). Since we downloaded the source package of hello, produced by 'make dist', this provides all the scripts generated by the autotools in order to run 'configure & & make'. However, if you get a program from the CVS, it is likely that you need to bootstrap autotools.
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Now, the autotools plugin relies on an 'autogen. Now, you can build the project, by right clicking on the project and by choosing ! Since this is the first time we build it, the build directory will be created, the configure script will be called with all the features we selected, and the files are compiled! Hey, but wait a minute! We could have used ccache to compile the sources!
And we should have also enable maintainer mode specific configuration settings! Well, we can still do that by going back to the settings of the project, enable the maintainer setting check box, and specify the gcc command as 'ccache gcc': Now, let's clean the project (this will issue a 'make distclean', but you can customize this from the setting), and build it again, so that it will be reconfigured with the new settings. Now, let's create another build configuration (e. We just need to go to . It is also important to specify another build directory, say 'build.
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- Step-By-Step Example of Autotools for Beginner. Of course, you can create your own project. Autoconf Generating configure.ac In summary-1.0.0.
- PhilipDaniels / autotools-template. Contact GitHub; API; Training; Shop; Blog.
- A tutorial for porting to autoconf & automake. A first disclaimer is that I don't really like autoconf and automake.
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Such a template is quite. Projects Blog Boilerplate for autotools-based C project. The autotools are a suite of tools to provide a build system for a project, including: autoconf to generate a configure script, and.