Using EclipseLovesCinder template

About a year ago, I created a template to use the Cinder framework within Eclipse. I still use it all the time, as I still find Eclipse a better C++ editor (although xcode is slowly catching up if you use the compile and use the latest LLVM). I recently decided to revisit it and update it to better fit the workflow I prefer, and fix issues I’ve over time found work arounds for.

With that I decided that it was time to give some new instructions so here they are. I’ll revisit this post with more details, but if pictures are a 1000 words this is a pretty big post.

• Click on workbench
  

• Should look like this now
  

• Right click white space in project area
  • Select import
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• Select “General”, then select “Existing Projects Into Workspace”
  
  
• Browse to the project. Should look like this now

This part is tricky, but extremely important. 
We must create a symbolic link that points to your specific Cinder path on your computer so we can reference it

1. In terminal browse to directory where you downloaded the project
2. enter: “ln -s abc123 CINDER_PATH_LINK”
   • Where abc123 is the absolute path where you placed cinder
3. enter: “Open .”
   • This will open Finder from current location
   • Notice CINDER_PATH_LINK has the ‘shortcut’ icon, and is inside the project directory

• Right click the project and refresh
  • Run a ‘clean’ operation
  • The project should now build
    

This is actually the most important step:

1. Make beautiful things