Tutorial: How to import a CMake project that uses ViSP in Eclipse IDE

Table of Contents

• Adjust Eclipse settings
• Unresolved inclusion
• Program arguments
• Next tutorial

Note

We assume in this tutorial that you have successfully installed ViSP either with an Installation from packages or with an Installation from source code.

In this tutorial you will learn how to import a CMake project that uses ViSP into Eclipse IDE.

This tutorial uses CMake to build projects. If you are not familiar with CMake, you can check the tutorial.

Adjust Eclipse settings

1) You need to download Eclipse IDE archive.

2) Extract Eclipse from archive

$ tar -zxvf eclipse-***.tar.gz -C {target directory} (For Linux)

3) Create a CMake project or take the project from Tutorial: How to create and build a project that uses ViSP and CMake on Unix or Windows which is used in this tutorial

4) Open Eclipse

5) File > New > Makefile Project with Existing Code

6) Browse > Select directory to the CMake project > Press "Finish"

7) Goto to the Project directory and execute "cmake . " in console in order to Configure your project

8) Right click on Project > Press "Properties" > C/C++ Build > Builder Settings

• Make sure that "Build command" contains "make"
• Make sure that "Build directory" contains path to the folder which contains MakeFile of the project
  

9) Project > Build all

• Make sure that Project builds
  

10) Right click on Project > Run As > Run Configurations > C/C++ Application > "Project" Default

11) C/C++ Application > Browse > Browse path to the executable file of your project > Apply

12) Now run the Project from Eclipse as usual

Unresolved inclusion

1) If you see issues such as "Unresolved inclusion" You need to perform next steps to solve it

2) Right click on Project > Press "Properties"

3) C/C++ General > Preprocessor Include Path etc. > Providers > Enable "CDT GCC Built-in Compiler Settings"

4) Wait until C++ indexer finished his work

Program arguments

For some projects you need to specified input arguments

Right click on Project > Run As > Run Configurations > C/C++ Application > "Project" Default > Arguments

• Write arguments to "Program arguments"
  

Next tutorial

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