Eclipse, Add all source file paths to an external tool as an argument

Question

I would like to add an External Tool to my Eclipse CDT Project.

This external tool, which is a program that I have written myself, requires different arguments (the map file and a list of all *.c *.cpp and *.h files). I already managed to hand over the map file but is there any way of getting a list of all *.c and *.h files (maybe with an Eclipse Variable) so that I can directly add this to the argument field?

Answer 1

I found one solution which can be used on a linux system. Just use a a pipe with the following command and put it in a shell script.

First of all, how to find all source code files:

find <rootfolder> -name '*.c' -o -name '*.cpp' -o -name '*.h'

Complete command:

find <rootfolder> -name '*.c' -o -name '*.cpp' -o -name '*.h' | xargs <myTool>

The first command will find out all absolute paths to the all .c .cpp and .h files listed in the rootfolder and the second one will convert its input into a set on arguments. The result will be the same as if every found file path would have been handed over as a single argument to mytool.