Project Menu actions

Selecting Project Menu

NameFunctionKeyboard Shortcut
Open Project Shows a dialog that can be used to select a closed project and open it.  
Close Project Closes the currently selected projects.  
Build All Builds all projects in the workspace. This is a full build; all files are built. Ctrl+B
Build Project Builds the currently selected project. This is a full build; all files in the project are built.  
Clean Invokes the make clean defined in the makefile  
Build Automatically When checked, the CDT will perform a build whenever a file in a project is saved. You should turn this feature off for very large projects.  
Create Make Target Creates a target in the Make Targets view. Standard Make only  
Build Make Target Builds a specific make target defined in your makefile such as make clean or make install. Standard Make only.  
Properties Displays the Properties dialog. From that dialog you can display the properties of resources in Info, External Tools Builders, C/C++ Build (managed only) File Types, Indexer options, C/C++ Make Project (standard only), C/C++ Project Paths (standard only), Include Paths and Symbols (standard only), and Project References.  

Related concepts
C/C++ compiler

Related tasks
Building a program

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