How to use bake in Eclipse

Choose the C/C++ perspective

The menu items described on this page only appear in the C/C++ perspective.

Select a build configuration of the main project

Right click on the main project and select a bake build configuration. Note, that only configurations with a DefaultToolchain will be displayed.

If no Project.meta or configuration with a DefaultToolchain exist, an error item will be displayed like this:

The chosen config is marked with a filled circle before the config name.You can also see it directly in the project explorer:

This label decoration can be switched off and on via Window->Preferences->General->Appearance->Label Decorations.

Adjust includes for CDT

As you might have already seen, a new menu item for the main project is enabled now: Adjust includes for CDT.
All CDT features work out-of-the-box except those about the #include statements e.g. auto-completion of includes. To import the "bake includes" into the CDT .cproject files, simply click on this menu item.
This is not a must, it's just convenience.
Note: importing can take between a few seconds and a minute depending on the size of the workspace and the number of project settings which have to be written.

Build/Clean Projects/Files

Now you can build or clean a project by clicking on the appropriate menu items.

Project	File (note: Build File always rebuilds the file)

Result

The result of the build will be shown in the Console and Problems View as usual:

Preferences

Via Window->Preferences->bake some settings can be changed and the bake command line can be extended: