With Eclipse: How to add include paths and libraries for all your C/C++ project

Question

Is it possible to add include paths and libraries to all C/C++ projects? In others words: How can I make them global or copy one C/C++ project build setting to another one?<

Answer 1

Yes, you can, in 2 steps, more user-friendly as the one mentioned by parvus. Both are done in "Project Properties" -> "C/C++ General" -> "Paths and Symbols":

1. In an existing project where you've already configured the include paths: Highlight the include paths (in the tab "Includes") which you want to copy to the new project and choose "Export". Note that this adds an [Exp] tag to each line.
2. In the new created project: In the "References" tab, tick the checkbox of the just mentioned project and when you switch back to the "Includes" tab, you see that all the paths you've just exported appear there.

Referencing the libraries works the same way.

Also have a look at:

• the Eclipse Juno Documentation to this topic,
• a related StackOverflow question