<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Removing Build Automatically</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../help.css"> </head> <body> <div role="main"><h1>Disabling the Build Automatically option</h1> <p>By default, the Eclipse workbench is configured to build projects automatically. However, for C/C++ development you should disable this option, otherwise your entire project will be rebuilt whenever, for example, you save a change to your makefile or source files. Click <strong>Project > Build Automatically</strong> and ensure there is no checkmark beside the <strong>Build Automatically</strong> menu item.</p> <p><img src="../images/cdt_autobuild.png" alt="Menubar showing Project selection"></p> <p><img src="../images/ngconcepts.gif" alt="Related concepts" width="143" height="21"> <br> <a href="../concepts/cdt_c_build_over.htm">Build overview</a></p> <p><img src="../images/ngtasks.gif" alt="Related tasks" width="143" height="21"> <br> <a href="cdt_t_manualbuild.htm">Building Manually</a><br> <a href="cdt_t_proj_build_set.htm">Defining Project Build settings</a><br> <a href="cdt_o_build_task.htm">Building projects</a></p> <p><img src="../images/ngref.gif" alt="Related reference" width="143" height="21"> <br> <a href="../reference/cdt_u_newproj_buildset.htm">Make Builder page, C/C++ Properties window</a></p> <img src="../images/ng00_04a.gif" alt="IBM Copyright Statement"> </div></body> </html>