Eclipse CDT not building project on header file change

Question

I have Eclipse Platform 3.7.2 and CDT 8.0.2.

When I want to do \'Build All\' headers from other workspace projects are not counted as dependencies, and nothing is re

Answer 1

The safest thing to do is to "Clean" the main project first and then rebuild. Often when I know what files in the main project use the modified header files I just "touch" those files and then rebuild. "Touch"ing for me is just adding a space on a line, typically one of the #include lines at the top of the file. Then that file rebuilds and picks up the modified header. Other files that may use that header won't get rebuilt so this is dangerous. For example, if you changed the signature of a method call and you rebuild this way, only the one file will correctly invoke the new method. Call from other source files will likely cause your program to trap. The advantage of course is rebuild speed. Especially when doing unit testing I know precisely which tests I will run so I just touch the relevant files, rebuild run. At some point for safety I always do a clean/build cycle. usually I wait until I need more coffee.