Has anyone ever tried, or had any success at getting Wascana (Eclipse CDT + MinGW for Windows) to compile FFMPEG under Windows. Apparently it is possible, there is even a tutorial at Craig Shaw's website but I have not been able to make it work.
I run ./configure on the FFMPEG source code then create a new project in Eclipse and point it at the source but it doesn't recognise it as a Makefile project. I think I need to create a builder which works with MinGW but my feeble attempts so far have been unsuccessful.
Hey, I can answer my own question! After a lot of fiddling around, I have come up with the procedure:
NOTE: This is for Wascana 0.9.3 and a Sep 2008 SVN version of FFMPEG.
Prepare Environment
After installing Wascana, you'll need to update various MinGW and MSYS packages. Download and unpack the following (you can download them from the MinGW website):
MSYS packages:
bash-3.1
coreutils-5.97
m4-1.4.7
make-3.81
MinGW packages:
w32api-3.12
MinGW Runtime 3.15
Build
Unpack the FFMPEG source code and configure like so (do not compile it yet):
./configure --enable-memalign-hack --disable-shared --enable-static --disable-mmx --disable-mmx2 --disable-optimizations --disable-stripping
Launch Wascana/Eclipse and create a new C project.
Do not select "Hello World" project, just select a Makefile project and select the MinGW toolchain.
Set the project path to wherever your FFMPEG source code is.
Click finish and the source should build itself!
Install
Right click the project and select Make Targets > Create.
In the dialog, set both the Make Target and Target name to "install".
Run the target you just created. This will install the FFMPEG libraries.
Execute and Debug
Open the Debug Dialog
Right-click on "C/C++ Local Application" and choose "New"
Fill in the project name and select the EXE you want to run (in my case, ffplay_g.exe)
Go to the debugger tab and change the debugger to "MinGW gdb Debugger"
I also had to make sure a copy of SDL.dll was in the ffmpeg directory.
Phew, what an ordeal. That all worked for me, hopefully it will work for you too!
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When I run the debugging I get "gdb.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close...."
I updated to gdb 6.8 and succeeded to debug
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My I use Eclipse Mars and MSYS2. Eclipse does not recognize my MSYS2 installation. It contains Mingw-w64 for 32 bit compilation. Things I have found on the Internet did not work. What should I do?
Well, a bit late to the party, but it looks like there is nothing special about MSYS2: the usual procedure of setting up Eclipse to work with MinGW-w64 installation worked for me just fine.
The main issue is that as described in Eclipse CDT FAQ to detect MinGW toolchain CDT tries to find mingw32-gcc.exe in PATH, while MinGW-w64 have only gcc and i686-w64-mingw32-gcc.exe in its bin directory, so just adding MinGW-w64 bin directory to PATH won't work:
Despite having g++.exe or gcc.exe on your PATH and having defined
MINGW_HOME, you may still get a “Toolchain "MinGW GCC" is not
detected” message (CDT 8.4 on Luna 4.4.0). Make sure that a file
called "mingw32-gcc.exe" exists in MINGW_HOME\bin.
As it mentioned further in Eclipse CDT FAQ, the easy fix would be to copy i686-w64-mingw32-gcc.exe to mingw32-gcc.exe:
If it doesn't exist
(which happens with MinGW-W64), copy a -gcc.exe file (e.g.
i686-w64-mingw32-gcc.exe) to mingw32-gcc.exe. If the dreaded message
still lingers around, reboot your system (don't just logout and
login).
After you did the copying described above, you can add MinGW-w64 bin directory to PATH and Eclipse will recognize the MinGW-w64 installation as MinGW toolchain. Since I don't like idea of polluting neither system nor user environment variables in Windows settings, I usually write a short batch file which adds MinGW-w64 bin directory to PATH and then starts Eclipse for me:
SET PATH=c:\msys32\mingw32\bin;%PATH%
START c:\eclipse\eclipse.exe
Even more later to the party - for me worked this solution: Right click project -> Properties -> C/C++ Build -> Environment: set environment variable MINGW_HOME to C:/.../msys64/mingw64 click OK, and rest is automatically done by eclipse
I installed both correctly, but it doesn't matter if I set up the path to compiler correctly or not because it can't find gcc and g++. I checked it with explorer, they were at the correct location. I tried everything I could, even I ran Eclipse in backwards compatibility mode and as an administrator.
EDIT: I'll using Visual Studio 2012 for a while if Eclipse can't be at least as user friendly to having find a solution to the problem under one hour via web.
Download this , chose the desired compilers (gcc and g++) . Make sure you have the value C:\mingw64 in PATH variable under environment variables .
I had to reload my workspace in order to get Eclipse to recognize that.
Also, I had updated the Path variable.
Please follow the same in your case.
I couldn't make the Eclipse (LUNA) to find MinGW on my computer (there were no MinGW available in Preferences>C/C++/New C/C++ Project Wizard) even after I have specified PATH as "C:\MinGW\bin" in Preferences>C/C++/Build>Environment, so what I did afterwards was:
Create a simple "Hello world" C project without specifying any toolchains
(at this step I tried to Build All, and it failed)
Go to Project>Properties, suprisingly, here I could see MinGW GCC as an available choice for Current toolchain. Select it.
Now I could build and run the project
Hopefully, it helps!
A colleague got a new mac, and he codes with Eclipse and gfortran. And Makefiles. But now he cannot build.
I figured that Eclipse does not use the same PATH as shell, so while Eclipse is happy to build with a makefile, it cannot find gfortran. (The Makefile works fine when ran form the mac terminal.)
Eclipse can build, if I put the full path in the Makefile (FC=/usr/local/bin/gfortran). But this is extra nuisance when other people use Ubuntu where gfortran has a different path.
Question: How/where to configure Eclipse (Juno) so that it can find gfortran? (I could not find, I tried.)
Why not just use Photran. It is based on Eclipse and is set up for Fortran.
I've been using MinGW, no real problems until Eclipse decides it doesn't want to run the executables any more. The run config is still the same, the project builds 100% fine, and I can run the built executable from command line/GUI. The console in Eclipse is empty, save for on the top bar followed by the executable name and time/date.
Just made a hello world project from the menu, same thing happens to it.
I just had the same error, and here is what I did:
Proper binary parser must be selected so Eclipse can recognize the executable: Select the project, then right click.
Project->Properties->C/C++ Build->Settings->Binary Parsers, PE Windows Parser (or you can select Cygwin if you use that compiler, on Linux I use Elf parser.).
That worked for me at least for Cross compiler (both on Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04)
Can somone who has done this tell me exactly what to do? The documentation is lacking and what is there is incomplete and incorrect.
I've got the plugin installed, and told it to usethe GHC installation that I have as part of the Haskell Platform but Run As.. only shows me Run GHCi session. According to the cheat sheet, I should see Haskell Application.
Also missing are instructions for where to find the hugs executable, and the Cabal installation that the Haskell Preferences seems to suggest I should have.
Can anyone point out what I've missed?
I'm a Haskell beginner, hence trying to get Eclipse set up so I can play with it...
It seems that currently there is no way to create a non-interactive launch configuration
via GUI. However, you can do that by manually editing config files. The following instructions work with Eclipse 3.5.2, EclipseFP 2.0.2:
Make sure there exists a GHCI configuration.
Close Eclipse.
Go to directory .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.debug.core/launches in the root of your workspace.
There should be a file named something like "Main (project src).launch". Copy it under whatever name you wish, for instance "Run Main.launch"
Open your copied file in a text editor and replace the option --interactive with -e main.
Save the file and start eclipse. You should see the new run configuration "Run Main". When you run it, EclipseFP executes your Main.hs file, redirecting both input and output to the console view.
Also, it seems that you haven't configured cabal yet. You first need to install it (from your distribution repositories, or here if you're using Windows). Then go to Scion and Cabal preferences and point them to your cabal executable. After you click OK the compilation of Scion should start. If it gives you errors, read what packages are missing and install them via cabal install pkg-name. (I had to install happy with --global flag, and for QuickCheck I had to manually set the 2.* version). To rerun Scion compilation, restart Eclipse.