I have an Eclipse project I’ve been working on for some time now, and I’d like to open source it. But to do that I’d like to have a clean Makefile like the majority of other open source programs. I understand I could make my own, but it would be better if Eclipse could manage it for me. Getting Eclipse to generate a CMake file would be even better, but I can settle for a plain makefile if that is easiest. So, how can I get Eclipse to do this? There are a few posts on the internet that suggest selecting “Managed make” when creating a project, but they were from a few years ago and are outdated. When I try to create a C project, there is the option to create a “Makefile project”, but it creates the makefile in a folder called “Linux GCC” and makes everything cluttered. Any suggestions?
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I ended up just creating a CMake project by hand. CMake files are really not that hard to make, and it’s a lot easier than trying to get Eclipse to do it for you. Plus, they’re cross-platform.