I have a large c++ project built with libtool. the problem is that eclipse will not run a libtool generated script, and I get a "Program is not a recognized executable." error message. how can I use eclipse debugger? I'm currently using kdevelop3 as an editor and debugging with insight.. which is horrible.
I could perhaps run the actual executable, thats in the ./libs of the project directory, but then I would have to manually set LD_LIBRARY_PATH and stuff like that... there must be a better way to so this.
any help would be appreciated!
Running a script instead of an executable is still unsupported in Eclipse, see this bug. Until the feature is introduced, you cannot debug a libtool-enabled project under Eclipse unless you keep something like a
path/to/configure --disable-shared
separate configuration, thus relying on static linking only for debugging purposes.
To do that, you
Open Project|Properties from the top menu
Select Autotools|Configure Settings from the left menu of the window
(Optionally) Create a new build configuration with a dedicated C/C++ Build|Builder Settings|Build location
Under configure|Advanced, fill the "Additional command-line options" with --disable-shared