7 For additional information on using Eclipse CDT see
9 <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Eclipse_CDT>`_.
11 The build system contains alpha support for generating C++ Eclipse
12 project files to aid with development.
14 Please report bugs to bugzilla and make them depend on bug 973770.
16 To generate a C++ Eclipse project files, you'll need to have a fully
21 Then, simply generate the Android Eclipse build backend::
23 mach build-backend -b CppEclipse
25 If all goes well, the path to the generated workspace should be
26 printed (currently, ``$OBJDIR/android_eclipse``).
28 To use the generated Android Eclipse project files, you'll need to
29 have a Eclipse CDT 8.3 (We plan to follow the latest Eclipse release)
31 <https://www.eclipse.org/cdt/>`_
32 installed. You can then import all the projects into Eclipse using
33 *File > Import ... > General > Existing Projects into Workspace*
34 -only- if you have not ran the background indexer.
36 Updating Project Files
37 ======================
39 As you pull and update the source tree, your C++ Eclipse files may
40 fall out of sync with the build configuration. The tree should still
41 build fine from within Eclipse, but source files may be missing and in
42 rare circumstances Eclipse's index may not have the proper build
45 To account for this, you'll want to periodically regenerate the
46 Android Eclipse project files. You can do this by running ``mach build
47 && mach build-backend -b CppEclipse`` from the
50 Currently, regeneration rewrites the original project files. **If
51 you've made any customizations to the projects, they will likely get
52 overwritten.** We would like to improve this user experience in the