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Java: getting Eclipse to work with preprocessor

Started by atw208 Oct 7, 2004 at 10:43 PM 3 replies 1.5k views

Original Post

Oct 7, 2004 at 10:43 PM

This kind of preprocessor: #ifdef #define something #endif Eclipse has those wiggly red lines over those kinds of lines. How do I keep Eclipse from doing that while checking other syntax errors like misspelled variables? I'm willing to use a preprocessor that can have it's directives placed inside some form of Java comment, if one is available. I'm also willing to switch to another full featured editor (preferrably free). So... what should I do? Thanks.

kooktroop

Oct 8, 2004 at 1:30 AM

Hey,

This sounds like a job for Antenna.

The preprocessor that comes with antenna doesnt integrate with Eclipse but allows you to hide your preprocessor directives behind the comments

//#ifdef DEBUGSystem.out.println("this will only be displayed if DEBUG is defined!");//#endif

Ontop of needing antenna you will also need ant. Remember the preprocessor doesnt integrate into eclipse, but the nice comments allow for the IDE to skip over them and just read them as comments.

benNNN

Oct 11, 2004 at 6:40 PM

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Original post by kooktroop
This sounds like a job for Antenna.

I'm curious on how you're setting up Eclipse. Are you using Antenna to do the entire build process thus removing Eclipse's builder, or are you using the preprocessor with Eclipse's builder?

OrangyTang

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OrangyTang

Oct 11, 2004 at 6:54 PM

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Original post by kooktroop
Ontop of needing antenna you will also need ant.

Ant is already intergrated into Eclipse in any of the standard Eclipse builds. [grin]

kooktroop

Oct 12, 2004 at 1:52 AM

I dont use ANT with Eclipse but thats because i use some of the ant tasks that arent supported by eclipse (at least the version i have). I'm sure if i spent the time i could set it up to work but ive got other things to do.

At the moment i just run ant from the command line. I find it better this way anyhow. All i have to do is type ant and press enter, rather than a series of clicks with the mouse.

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