Import third-party library source files into Eclipse CDT

Question

I have a project that works very well with eclipse-cdt. I am not building from eclipse, but the indexer is working, and all my makefile settings have been compiled, including the headers of third-party libraries.

However, I would like to be able to view the actual source of these libraries - say, if I want to see some kind of code in Qt or libc, I would like CTRL + to click on the method from the corresponding header file. You can do this in the java version of eclipse, whenever you miss the source file, you have the option "add source". I searched everywhere for CDT and did not find a solution. I do not want to create these third-party libraries, I just want to be able to navigate through their source code not only to their headers.

Does anyone know how to do this (I will miss something obvious)?

Answer 1

Ok, I found the answer. In the "Project Properties" window in the "C / C ++ General" section, there is a tab "Source Location", the project folder should be indicated there. Click “Link Folder”, check “Link to a folder in the file system” and use “Browse” to find the folder in which the entire source code of the library is located.