Setup SGDK with Eclipse

Setup Eclipse

1. Define "GDK" environment variable to your installation path in unix path format (example D:/apps/sgdk).
2. Download Eclipse CDT at http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/downloads.php and install it wherever you want.
3. Launch Eclipse and set your workspace folder as your root folder of your futures development projects as each new project will be added to this folder by Eclipse.
4. Go to the workbench and select menu Window > Preferences to setup Eclipse
5. In General > Workspace

• check Save automatically before build
• uncheck Build automatically

6. In C/C++ > New CDT Project Wizard > Makefile Project go to the Builder Settings tab

• uncheck Use default build command
• set Build command value to ${GDK}/bin/make -f ${GDK}/makefile.gen

7. In C/C++ > New CDT Project Wizard > Makefile Project go to the Behavior tab

• be sure Build (incremental build) is checked and replace field value all by ${ConfigName} so it will use the current active configuration to build the project

Setup Project

1. You can now create a new project (File > New > C Project > Makefile project > Empty Project > --Other toolchain--).

2. Right-click on it and select Properties to setup the project itself.
3. In C/C++ General > Paths and Symbols, add a new directory in Includes tab

• Directory : ${GDK}/include
• Add to all configurations
• Add to all languages

4. Click Apply and rebuild the index

{{{ this will make available the headers on /sdk/include to your project }}}

5. Right-click on the project and select Build configurations > Manage...

• Rename the Default configuration to release
• Add a new configuration named debug
• So now you can change the active configuration depending the build you need :)

Common error

If you have an error on build like main() not found, be sure to click Apply on project properties's C/C++ General > Paths and Symbols.

Another source of problem : be sure to un-mark Project>Build automatically