PAIN POINT:
Using Eclipse CDT - the launch configs I need are rather complex (little settings that are non-default values and other misc things) too many little things to remember, and easy to skip then stuff does not work. I want to be able to semi-automate this process in project makefiles.
Background:
I have multiple projects, not stored in the workspace (my users "import the project"). In some cases projects are some what generated (they are external makefile projects.
Requirement: Specifically depending on what build configuration is required the launch config needs to change/tweak, the external Makefile can do that, or I can create one launch file for each config. Or I can pre-populate them when I create the project
[example is normal development, debug/release but with unit-test variations]
The user might tweak the settings of course and want to save them.
Requirement: So that the launch files "travel with the project" - I want to check the into GIT, thus I want the .launch files kept in the same directory as the .project and .cproject files - as described here (thus they can be checked in and things are "self contained)
Store run configuration with project in Eclipse
PROBLEMS and QUESTIONS
1) Given existing launch configurations files (.launch files) in the ".project" directory, how can I browse/select from the list of existing ones that Eclipse does seem to previously know about.
{Example: Create a launch config called "FOO", copy this to "BAR", edit the BAR config file, replacing internal occurrences of FOO with BAR)
The BROWSE button in the "common" tab lets me select a directory to save but does not allow me to select an existing file
2) How can I tell eclipse File (X) is the default launch configuration for this project, or config(X) uses file(A) and config(Y) uses file (B)
3) Is there a way within the ".project" or ".config" or ".cproject" files to specify where to look for launch configurations, where to offer them?
4) Sure would be nice to have a file (or place in the .project, or .cproject) file that says: Launch configs for this project are in this directory - offer the user a list based on the files present in that directory
bottom line:
I'm sort of stuck - I can create launch files "correctly" with all required settings but I seem to have no means to tell Eclipse to use select/use them.
No amount of automation here seems to work, and I end up having to go back to manually creating and humanly forgetting settings in the project files.
Places I've looked:
Sort of the issue but not exactly
https://superuser.com/questions/521537/remove-launch-from-run-debug-drop-down-in-eclipse
Below - ARM describes the IMPORT process, but in my case all ".launch" files are grayed out and not selectable I don't know why and that is a different problem
I'd like to not make this a multi-step process - also see above about removing stale launch configs - you end up with too many launch configs in the history.
http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.dui0446h/CJADBBIA.html
There are numerous other places but all seem to be "click here" or "use this menu item" and not addressing the external file issue.
