Integrating an eclipse/cdt-based build into continuous integration

Question

I have to reuse a major C++ project which is currently developed inside eclipse, using CDT, mingw and cdt managed build feature (no external makefiles or build environment). The project itself is composed of many sub-projects. I want to integrate that build into a continuous integration server (jenkins namely) and have thus to be able to automate the headless build. So far, I managed to checkout the project (easy from jenkins) and have it build in a headless mode using eclipse, using the following command: ``` C:\prog\EclipseCdt\eclipse -nosplash -application org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.core.headlessbuild -import %WORKSPACE%\project1 -import %WORKSPACE%\project2 -import %WORKSPACE%\project3 -build all ``` It's however not enough: - build is asynchronous : previous command returns (it forks actually) while I expect it to hold context until I have a result (like it would with `make` on linux or `devenv` on windows) - I was unable to extract the build logs (ideally have them in a file…

Accepted Answer

it looks like if I start eclipse from a cmd interactively,it forks, if started from a bat script, it doesn't. so putting the previous line in jenkins was enough to do the trick.

Notes:

- you need to add `-data` parameter to define location of your workbench (I clean build each time)

- as usual, blame windows and put quotes....

- `--launcher.suppressErrors` : in case something goes awoc, prevents eclipse from displaying a pop up (which is actually not displayed, thus blocks build)

Final (working !) command:

```
C:\prog\EclipseCdt\eclipse --launcher.suppressErrors -nosplash -data "%WORKSPACE%" -application org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.core.headlessbuild -import "%WORKSPACE%\project1" -import "%WORKSPACE%\project2" -import "%WORKSPACE%\project3" -build all 
```

EDIT

- added --launcher.suppressErrors

Integrating an eclipse/cdt-based build into continuous integration

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