Managing Build Hosts

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You can browse your remote hosts from the IDE using the Services window. To open the Services window, choose Window > Services.

To view host information in the Services window:

  1. Expand the C/C++ Build Hosts node to see your current local host and remote hosts.
  2. Expand the node for a host to display the Tools Collection node. Expand this node to list the tool collections available on the host.
  3. Expand the node for a tool collection to see the path names for the tools in the collection.

Actions

Right-clicking the local host node displays a pop-up menu includes the following items:

Menu Item Description
Set as Default Sets the local host as the default build host
Open Terminal See Opening a Terminal Window For a Build Host

 

Right-clicking a remote host node displays a pop-up menu with the following items:

Menu Item Description
Connect Connects to the remote host
Disconnect Disconnects from the remote host
Open Project Opens a file browser to open a project located on the remote host
Set as Default Sets the selected remote host as the default build host
Remove Host Removes the host from your list of remote hosts
Properties Displays the properties of the host. See Setting Remote Host Properties
Path Mapper Opens the Edit Path's Map dialog box. See Sharing Files With Remote Build Hosts
Add to Favorites Displays a pop-up menu with the following items:
  • Remote Home Folder - Adds the home folder on the remote host to the Favorites window
  • Remote Mirror of Local Files - Add the remote mirror of local files, if one exists, to the Favorites window. This is the copy of the project files created when you set a build host to use Automatic Copying.
  • Remote Root - Adds the root folder on the remote host to the Favorites window
Open Terminal See Opening a Terminal Window for a Build Host
See also
  Overview of C/C++ Remote Development
Setting Up C/C++/Fortran Projects for Remote Development
Configuring Build Tools
C/C++ Project Properties Dialog Box: Build

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