plugin first steps

[Daron Chabot]

On 24-Nov-08, at 6:17 PM, Chris Johns wrote:

> Joel Sherrill wrote:
>> It seems like you are working to extract information
>> from the RTEMS Application Makefiles and generate
>> some configuration information for Eclipse.  Chris
>> has been working to eliminate them in favor of autoconf
>> for the external examples.
>
> I have not followed in detail where they are getting the info from  
> but Makefiles would concern me.

I would prefer NOT to have to parse Makefiles too :-)

>
> The approach taken in the autoconf examples is to use the BSP  
> configuration files.
>
> Does Eclipse have support for autotools ?

AFAIK, not yet... However it's a trivial matter to set up an External  
Tool Launcher to run "configure". I do this when I use Eclipse to  
build RTEMS.

>
>> Couldn't the same information be directly generated
>> by RTEMS?
>
> It is held in RTEMS already in the BSP config files. This file is  
> installed when the BSP is installed.

Which file(s) are you referring to ?  ${RTEMS_MAKEFILE_PATH}/ 
Makefile.inc ??


-- dc