The org.linuxfoundation.cdt.lsb plug-in is intended to facilitate development of portable C/C++ applications for the Linux platform by integrating the LSB tools into the Eclipse IDE. It enables smooth use of the LSB SDK for building C/C++ applications within the Eclipse IDE, along with "at hand" check of the applications with the Linux Application Checker . Furthermore, the plug-in provides a "one click" way to show the documentation and the other information about the given functions, types or constants, about their LSB status and presence in distributions via the LSB Navigator .

Start using LSB Eclipse Plugin

To install the latest version of LSB Eclipse Plugin, please refer to this page . Information about the LSB Eclipse Plugin sources is here .

Release notes are available at Release Notes Page .

Please read LSB Eclipse Plugin Getting Started for an overview of the plug-in.

Key Features

The key features of the LSB Eclipse Plugin:

• 1. Integration of the LSB SDK tools that allow building LSB-compliant applications:
  • Adds the following Eclipse project templates to use LSB toolchain instead of the standard GCC toolchain that uses lsbcc/lsbc++ compilers from LSB SDK package:
    • Executable program (C/C++),
    • Shared Library (C/C++),
    • Static Library (C/C++).
  • Support for the multiversioned LSB SDK tools.
  • Support for using non-system Shared Libraries for LSB progams.
• 2. Integration with the Linux Application Checker :
  • Determining location of the Linux Application Checker (for local versions).
  • Gathering the following options for the Linux Application Checker:
    • location and file name of the project to check,
    • application name,
    • LSB version to check against.
  • Running analysis using the JavaScript for the Linux Application Checker server.
  • Showing results page in the Eclipse browser using the web-interface of the Linux Application Checker.
  • Keeping the history of recently used servers.
  • Automatically launching recently used/remembered Linux Application Checker server if there is no server running.
  • Providing a dialog for selecting a Linux Application Checker server if there are several servers running.
  • Application checking when multiple projects selected.
  • Taking project dependencies into account when checking the application in the Linux Application Checker.
  • Checking the application against the LSB version specified in the project's settings.
  • Saving/Loading configured options and user choices for using them as defaults in the future.
  • Separate page for the Plug-in settings in the Eclipse Preferences dialog.
  • Support for the installable Linux Application Checker version.
• 3. Integration with the LSB Navigator :
  • Actions (toolbar button, main and context-popup menu items) for opening LSB Navigator and key binging (Ctrl+4) for them are introduced.
  • Determining the type of the identifier the caret points to (function, class, macros, etc.) and opening LSB Navigator on the appropriate page.
    • Ignoring user-defined identifiers (local interfaces, types, classes and macroses) and also fields, function parameters, labels and template type parameters.
  • Computing the relative name of the header (with prefix, ex. "rpc/auth.h").
  • The Plug-in assembles full unmangled names of the C++ classes, methods, etc.
  • Support for C++ unspecialized class or function templates (the Plug-in generates the appropriate search link for LSB Navigator).
  • Support for identifiers when Eclipse cannot bind the full name — the Plug-in sends these identifiers to the search script of LSB Navigator.
  • Support for Eclipse on Windows platform.

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