topic Re: Build options / auto building in Kinetis Design Studio

Build options / auto building

TurboMan — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 08:44:01 GMT

Usually when you select "build automatically", the IDE will build when you click the hammer icon, or right click on the project and click build, and then I can launch a debug session and go straight into the session.

However, when I build a project in KDS3.2.0 and then debug, it goes and builds the project AGAIN when I press the debug button.

Is there any way around this? Is it a known bug?

I don't want to select "disable auto-build" because then when I've gone and made a change to something at a point in the future, and go back into a debug session to check if it's fixed a software bug, it will look like the bug hasn't been fixed. What I want is to only build the project IF there have been changes OR the project is not built.

Re: Build options / auto building

BlackNight — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 08:52:54 GMT

Hello,

There is an Eclipse workspace setting to 'build automatically before debug', see https://mcuoneclipse.com/2012/10/30/speeding-up-the-debug-launch-in-codewarrior/. So if you deselect this, then it will not do a build before debug.

You might check if the 'refresh policy' is set correctly (I have seen SDK example projects with wrong settings), see https://mcuoneclipse.com/2015/06/06/eclipse-project-refresh-policy-broken-incremental-build-with-external-make/ . If this is wrong, then the build will do always a full build instead of an incremental build, so this might be worthwile checking.

I hope this helps,

Erich

Re: Build options / auto building

TurboMan — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 08:45:40 GMT

Hi Erich,

yes, my project was set to build automatically before launch, but your second part is what fixed it. So yes, I had the FRDM_K64F_Test project listed under the refresh policy. Deleting this and selecting the project fixed my problem. Thanks again for useful help :smileyhappy: