Eclipse adding your own build command

Question

I am new to eclipse and wanted to do the following:

1. Use my custom build commands with eclipse. Until now I only saw make all. I use a shell script

Answer 1

In addition to what smeg4brains said and assuming that you are using the CDT plugin you can go to:

project -> properties -> C/C++ Build

Uncheck Use default build command on the Builder Settings tab and replace make with e.g. scons.

On the Behaviour tab you can then specify the target to call for the Build and Clean phase.

To resolve your second issue open the Project menu and uncheck Build automatically. This will prevent Eclipse from building the project when it thinks it is necessary.