Compiling and Debugging FORTE with Eclipse

Get C/C++ support for Eclipse

If you do not already use Eclipse to run 4DIAC-IDE from source, download the Eclipse for C/C++ Developers and unzip the file to a suitable location (e.g., c:\eclipse). Otherwise you can integrate C/C++ functionality into your existing Eclipse by Help/Install New Software, choosing your Eclipse version and checking Programming Languages/C/C++ Development Tools.
Run eclipse.exe
Choose a workspace directory, this will be the directory where your C/C++ project will be located (see below on how to add FORTE) Please avoid any spaces in its names. Otherwise you might get problems when compiling FORTE.

Import FORTE by File/Import/General/Existing Project into Workspace. Select the directory where you have extracted your FORTE . If you have extracted FORTE into your Eclipse workspace select this directory (e.g., c:\eclipse\workspace). If you have extracted FORTE into a different directory check copy into workspace (otherwise the source will stay at the original place).
Start Make Targets View by Window/Show View/Make Targets if it is not open already and choose the makefile: bin/posix/all to generate the object files for the existing Function Blocks and compile FORTE to a executable application.

For the debugging of self developed Function Blocks run through the following steps:

set a breakpoint in the source code file of the desired Function Block
start FORTE in Eclipse Debug mode
choose your desired debugger. In case you use Cygwin choose Cygwin gdb Debugger in the debug configuration window shown in the following figure. If you use MinGW choose MinGW gdb Debugger
confirm for changing into the Debug view
press the Locate File button (see figure below) and navigate to the Eclipse workspace which contains the extracted FORTE, type main into the search field of the Windows Explorer and select the offered main.cpp. FORTE is now stopped at the main() function.
Press the Resume button to run FORTE and observe the behavior of our application.
Always press the Terminate button for stopping a FORTE launched within Eclipse. This avoids FORTE running in the background (not always shown in Task Manager).