Posted by spflanze on 2015-12-19 05:19

Does the menu item at “File => Import => General => Existing Projects into Workspace” cause an existing project to be brought into a workspace without copying or linking, does it copy all the project’s files into a new directory on the disk drive, or does it create links on the hard drive that appear in the Project Explorer?

Suppose I created a project using STM32CubeMX and imported it into Eclipse by following those directions:
http://www.openstm32.org/Importing+a+STCubeMX+generated+project
and then, after doing the import, I were to update the STM32CubeMX project and regenerate the code. Would the updated code be in the Eclipse project? Or would copies of that code that is outside ot the Eclipse project be updated?

The need is for the updated STM32CubeMX generated code to be in the project.

What is the prefered way to add already written source code into this Eclipse project, if the files are already in branches of the project root on the hard drive, and it is not desired to create copies of them?

After looking at my project’s file structure in MS Windows Explorer it became apparent that Eclipse project importation is doing something other than what I originally expected. I have been reading about EFS and IResource, yet at this point I am still confused.