I am working a C++ codebase that is built & run outside Eclipse.
I made an Eclipse project out of it where I just use Eclipse for browsing/editing the code.
However, I can’t figure out how to completely exclude certain directories like build/ from it completely. They should be excluded not only during building but also during “Refresh workspace” which seems to get triggered so often. To give an example, my workspace is
d:\workspace
It has directories like
source/
build/
..
During startup, Eclipse picks up all directories inside the workspace automatically. However, I would like Eclipse to exclude build/ completely.
My code is on a remote machine, so “Refresh workspace” slows things down.
You can do it by adding Resource filters. Add Exclude All resource filter type to root folder of your project. See also this answer.