eclipse-pde

I have written an Eclpise plugin (an Error Parser for the CDT), and it works just fine in the debugger version of eclipse. However I cannot for the life of me figure out how to install the plugin into eclipse. I can export the plugin as a jar file, and it seems to export without errors. I put the plugin jar file into eclipse\dropins and it is not loaded by eclipse. If I add it to the plugins directory, no luck. The features directory also seems to ignore my plugin. So I thought, OK, I'll try installing it through the GUI. So I browse to where the plugin archive is and add it as a local update

I am trying to write a custom launch configuration while running a plugin project as an eclipse application. I have to run the plugin with limited dependencies. Is it possible to override methods in org.eclipse.pde.launching.EclipseApplicationLaunchConfiguration ? If yes then how do I do it ? You can't easily override the methods in EclipseApplicationLaunchConfiguration . That would require writing a new launch configuration - probably by using the org.eclipse.debug.core.launchConfigurationTypes extension point to define a new launch type. EclipseApplicationLaunchConfiguration always uses the

I am new to eclipse plugin development. I would like to customise some of the eclipse functionalities in my plugin. So I would like to know, what happens in the background when I do some operation in eclipse. For e.g., File->New->Project. I need the logs/Trace of which plugin/Class/Function is called? You can use the -debug <path to options file> argument when you start Eclipse to specify the path of a debug options file which is used to enable various debug tracing options. You may also want to use the -consoleLog argument. A example options file would be: # Turn on debugging for the org

I'm trying to create a New Project template for Eclipse CDT in order to address my question asked here . @Jonah Graham provided a very detailed walk-through in his answer to 1 and this has gotten me most of the way. However, I can't figure out how to set an option that is specified via a drop-down; e.g. Dialect / Language Standard to ISO C++11 (-std=c++01) on the Settings / Tool Settings / GCC C++ Compiler / Dialect tab. The same issue would arise if I wanted to change the default Optimization or Debug levels, etc. I thought perhaps this could be accomplished via something like <process type=