Linux Tools Project - Autotools Plug-ins

Overview

The Linux Distributions Autotools suite of plugins add support to the CDT (C/C++ Development Tools) for building and maintaining C/C++ projects that use autotools. Using autotools is very common in the world of Open Source projects such as those hosted at http://www.gnu.org. With this additional support, a vast repository of C/C++ code can be checked out, built, and maintained under the CDT rather easily without having to resort to the command line.

Current Status

In conjunction with CDT 5.0.1, the plugin can do the following:

• Build a C/C++ project that uses a configure script or an autogen script or a Makefile.cvs script
• Allow configuration parameters to be set via a gui and to rebuild when configuration parameters are changed
• Colorized editing of configuration files such as configure.in, configure.ac, Makefile.am, and Makefile.in with full hover help for autoconf/automake macros
• Allow specification of multiple build configurations for a single project
• Run autoconf, automake, or aclocal directly using a gui interface
• Help for autoconf and automake

Future Plans

• Wizard support for creation of Autotool projects
• Templates for autoconf/automake input files
• Better error parsing of autoconf/automake input files
• Increase test coverage

Screenshots

Autotools build

Autotools configuration parameters

Autotools editor

Try it out

Please use our update site as described here.
Or check the project plugins out of SVN directly from eclipse.org at svn://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/technology/org.eclipse.linuxtools. You will need to check out the following from autotools/trunk:

     org.eclipse.linuxtools.autotools
     org.eclipse.linuxtools.autotools.docs
     org.eclipse.linuxtools.autotools-feature

From there, run the plugins as an Eclipse Application.