[cs23021] Eclipse not recognizing CygWin toolchain

[Mikhail Nesterenko]

CS I students,

Take a look at this email, in case you are having similar problems
with home Eclipse installation.

Thanks,
--
Mikhail

> Hello Dr. Nesterenko,
> 
>  I've been having a frustrating time trying to get my Eclipse to work
> correctly since the second lab. The problem was simple: nothing worked! I
> had an error every time I created a project that said something like f*ailed
> to make target 'all.'*During my last lab session, I payed close attention to
> the Eclipse settings on our lab computers, and noticed one big issue: The
> Toolchain. On the lab computers, when you create a project the CygWin GCC
> Toolchain is selected by default. My projects, on the other hand, only
> offered the option:  "-- other toolchain." I had a feeling this was the
> problem at first, but this practically confirmed it.
> 
>  I asked the TA for his opinion, and he insisted that I must not have
> installed cygwin, or at least not correctly. I had installed it many times
> over just to be sure, and it seemed that Eclipse was just not recognizing
> it. So, using the other piece of advice my TA gave me, I unchecked "show
> project types and toolchains only if they are supported on the platform" and
> selected the CygWin GCC Toolchain. This lead to another error: "The
> configuration support is not installed on the current system." Once again,
> Eclipse let me know it that it simply had no idea where my cygwin was. I
> looked up this error on the internet, and with great luck came upon this
> post.<http://dreamlayers.blogspot.com/2010/01/eclipse-incompatibility-with-cygwin-17.html>
> 
>  This solved everything and I can now run and use Eclipse on my machine just
> fine. I think most of the class is having this same issue, so I sent you
> this e-mail in hopes that someone else having this issue will find it as
> useful as i did.
> 
> For the sake of being thorough, I'd like to note that this problem occurred
> on a Dell Inpsiron 1501 Running Windows Vista Basic, as well as my HP
> Dv6-1230 US running Vista Premium.