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On 3/15/2010 1:44 PM, Danilo Turina wrote:
> On 15/03/2010 18.23, Bernd Prager wrote:
>> Has anybody gotten Eclipse C++ CDT to run with Cygwin 1.7.?
>
> Yes, it works for me.
> I have the latest version of Eclipse Galileo (3.5.2?) and I've Cygwin 
> 1.7 up to date.
>
> Notice, anyway, that I don't heavily use it (e.g. I compile only one 
> file at time choosing "Build selected item" on project explorer).
>
> I hadn't to do anything strange to make Eclipse recognize Cygwin 1.7 
> (anyway notice that I previously had Cygwin 1.5).
>
> It's worth noticing that with the default Eclipse configuration I 
> wasn't able to compile using gcc/g++.
>
> This was due to the fact that in Cygwin 1.7 gcc, g++, etc. are 
> symbolic links (alternatives?) that are marked as executables. This 
> causes Eclipse to believe they are Win32 executables and make it to 
> try to execute them (Eclipse doesn't understand Cygwin's symlinks).
>
> To fix this (but maybe this has already been discussed in this list), 
> in Eclipse preferences just change the references to gcc, g++ putting 
> instead the names of the real executables (g++-3, gcc-3, etc.)
>
> Ciao,
>     Danilo

Thank you Danielo! That closed that case for me. :)

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