New tool for C++ Programming for old cRIOs

[mikets]

Since the season is over and school has ended, we are starting to look into reviving all our old robots with the cRIO controllers. We are very happy to find your tool chain for Eclipse. Thank you very much.
In season 2015, we switched from C++ to Java but we did follow the instructions to install Eclipse with C++ so that the environment can handle both Java and C++. Now it's the real test if that works.
We followed your instructions installing the tools chain, configuration the team number and all that. We created a new C++ project. Drag our Rebound Rumble code to the src folder within Eclipse. Everything seems working smoothly. However, when it comes to time for compiling the project, it gave us some trouble. It looks like Eclipse doesn't know where to find the gcc compiler:

00:06:20 **** Build of configuration cRIODebug for project ReboundRumble ****
"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\FRC_Toolchain\\mingw\\bin\\mingw32-make.exe" all 
'Building file: ../src/DashboardDataFormat.cpp'
'Invoking: Thunder cRIO Tools C++ Compiler'
powerpc-wrs-vxworks-g++ -DCPU=PPC603 -DTOOL_FAMILY=gnu -DTOOL=gnu -D_WRS_KERNEL -IC:\Users\Michael\Projects\Frc\2015\code\ReboundRumble\include -I"C:\Program Files (x86)\FRC_Toolchain\mingw\powerpc-wrs-vxworks\wind_base\/../include/WPILib" -O0 -g3 -Wall -c -fmessage-length=0 -mcpu=603 -mstrict-align -mlongcall -MMD -MP -MF"src/DashboardDataFormat.d" -MT"src/DashboardDataFormat.d" -o "src/DashboardDataFormat.o" "../src/DashboardDataFormat.cpp"
'powerpc-wrs-vxworks-g++' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
mingw32-make: *** [src/DashboardDataFormat.o] Error 1

00:06:21 Build Finished (took 145ms)

I found the gcc compiler. It's in C:\Program Files (x86)\FRC_Toolchain\mingw\bin. So how to I tell Eclipse where to find it? I went through the maze of Eclipse Preferences and can't seem to find any tool path that I can configure.
Also, the code currently has lots of red X's. It seems the #include WPILib.h line couldn't be resolved. I must have missed a step to "import wpilib". I thought it's part of the tool chain install but may be not. Please advise how to fix this.
Thank you very much for putting this out.

[mikets]

Originally Posted by mikets

Also, the code currently has lots of red X's. It seems the #include WPILib.h line couldn't be resolved. I must have missed a step to "import wpilib". I thought it's part of the tool chain install but may be not. Please advise how to fix this.

I think I figured out this particular problem. At the beginning of the 2015 season, when installing the software, the instructions advised to uninstall the old NI software including WindRiver. I found the Eclipse path still pointing to ${WIND_BASE}....\WPILib. Interestingly, even WindRiver was uninstalled, the c:\WindRiver\WPILib folder still exists. I supposed that's part of the FRCUpdate so WindRiver uninstall won't touch it. In any case, I extracted the WPILib header files and dragged those into the project include folder. That seems to fix the problem. Now I just need to tell Eclipse where to find g++. The code still has lots of red X's now complaining about some pure functions have not been implemented. So I am still missing something but I am ignoring this for now. Let's fix one thing at a time.

[mikets]

Regarding the g++ not found issue, I suspect it has something to do with the Eclipse perspective. I clicked Window->Open Perspective->Other to open the perspective dialog. It showed the "C/C++ {default}" perspective. Since it said it's the default, I think I am good. In any case, just for good measure, I selected it and click OK anyway. But it didn't do anything. Still got the same g++ not found error.

[tomy]

I'm having a major error when I go to deploy the code. I get an error stating it cannot find the .out file. I looked under the cRIODebug and it didn't create the .out when we built the code. Any suggestions.