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10 months ago

Eclipse hang when creating Debugger Configuration

I am running Eclipse Mars.2 from Quartus 20.3 and am experiencing the program locking up whenever I try and add the project to create a Debug Configuration. It happens as soon as I double click on the root software project directory.

When I kill the program because it is not responding I get the java debug dialog below.

I have tried hand-editing the launch file to include the project but the program then hangs when I open the Debug Configuration. So I think it is hanging when it is scanning the project. But I don't know eclipse internals, so it could be anything

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    10 months ago

    A little more information: Every time I try to add the project to the debug configuration and it hangs, it starts an instance of make.exe which is consuming 5-10% of my cpu. I'm going to leave it running and see if eventually make.exe will complete whatever it is doing.

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    10 months ago

    Further information for anyone who runs into the same problem. The process is hanging in the step where it uses the Makefile to get the elf file name. Still working on why this might be