Eclipse Experts?

I decided to solve my problem with tracking down all those missing URLs by writing a filter named, cleverly, fields that would take CSV lines from stdin, and take the contents of each field and output them into an output string.  Sort of like awk, but smart enough to ignore field separators inside quotation marks.  This will let me produce output that I can process into URLs to find the newspaper articles so that I can grab the link to the page I need.

So I have cygwin on my PC, and I have made good use of it to write a bash script that automatically produces URLs that look up by year and month a variety of strings ("murders", "killing 3" and similar).  My goal was to give my research associate a list of URLs to click instead of having to pull down menus in Chronicling America.  That is working well at speeding up the process.

But having coded and compiled fields under cygwin, there is no debugger included in cygwin.  I could just transfer all this to my VM Linux, but I would prefer to stay under Windows for this.  There is no easy way to share files between VMWare's Linux and Windows.  (There is supposed to be, but I have never figured out how to install the VMWare tool package to make this work.)

So I am trying to use Eclipse for C/C++ instead.  I like IDEs and Eclipse is familiar to me.  It does lack the 1980s feel of coding and building in emacs, then debugging from the shell, but nostalgia only goes so far, and as I mentioned, cygwin has no debugger.

Eclipse is insisting on using cmake instead of make, and worse cmake is apparently not installed with Eclipse for C/C++.  Anyone know how to change it to use make instead?

Awesome!  One of you python handlers (much like the backwoods rattlesnake handlers but more useful) wrote me a program to do what I needed!