Help Configuring Eclipse and Cygwin on Windows

[Davide-NYC]

Hello all,

I am a win32 user. [Windows XP Pro Sp2]
I have cygwin running fine. [C:\cygwin\]
I have eclipse 3.2 and CDT 3.1 installed. [C:\eclipse\]

I've been modifying files with an editor and compiling with make under cygwin without any problems, but I find the interface clunky and I'd like to not leave the app if possible. I'd like an Integrated Development Evironment.  

So I'm looking into using eclipse. I'm not a developer really, but if it's good enough for IBM...
I was able to checkout cvs code using eclipse. (cool!)
But I cannot figure out how to configure eclipse to use make. (uncool!)

I looked at the scripts available on THIS page in THIS zipfile.
But they are way out of date (Sept 1st 2003) and no longer work.

If someone could look at those scripts, fix them and comment them up so that I could modify them to work in my environment it would be very much appreciated.

I think a lot of people would find this useful. I'd even take a stab at writing up a revised HowTo.
Once it's working that is...  

[Lear]

Eclipse CDT is based on Make, so you don't need to do anything special. Just create a "Standard Make" project (as opposed to a "Managed Make" project).

However, creating a working project can be a little tricky, as Eclipse sometimes isn't very helpful if something is configured wrong (it just says it failed to do something, with no indications or error messages giving a clue as to what the problem might be).