5.3. Eclipse Plugin

Here you will learn how to install and configure the Axivion Eclipse Plugin [1] of the Axivion Suite . The Axivion Eclipse Plugin gives you access to issue data available in the web dashboard within the Eclipse IDE. Issues can be retrieved, listed, and navigated to within Eclipse, so that you can access and fix them in your IDE. It is very similar to the Axivion Visual Studio Plugin, which is described in Visual Studio Plugin.

Additionally, the Axivion Eclipse Plugin uses CDT to get the needed build information to allow you to perform a local analysis of your code. This means that the Axivion Eclipse Plugin will start the Axivion tools needed to perform the analysis and the results will be displayed in Eclipse. This CDT Integration works only on managed make CDT projects (CDT creates and manages the makefile). On CDT standard make projects (CDT invokes a user created and maintained makefile), this feature is not available.

Note

The features Axivion Eclipse Plugin CDT Integration and Local Build (Local Build) are completely independent from each other. So the restriction to managed make projects of the CDT Integration does not apply for the Local Build.

Furthermore, an analysis with Make is possible. The Axivion Eclipse Plugin will invoke a configurable command, that e.g. starts make with a certain target. This command then executes the build and analysis of the selected file or folder. The results will be displayed as markers.

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