STM32CubeIDE: Icon Decorators: exclude resource from build

[KayJay]

Hi,

I'm seeing some odd behavior with the icon decorators on excluded source files:

• Create a new STM32 project with everything as default
• Build the project ... all good
• Add a source file, say demo1.c that contains a single function
• Add another source file, say, demo2.c, that contains a single function
• Create two new build configurations, say, Demo1 and Demo2
• Set Demo1 as the active configuration and exclude resource demo2.c
• Set Demo2 as the active configuration and exclude demo1.c
• Build the Demo1 configuration ... look in the console output to prove it built demo1.c and excluded demo2.c
• Build the Demo2 configuration ... look in the console output to prove it built demo2.c and excluded demo1.c
• ...but the icon decorators are not showing the excluded resources

This is with STM32CubeIDE v1.4.2

Any ideas?

Thanks

[Cartu38 OpenDev]

Works for me if 1.5.0 release at least. Decorator is well set in sync. with exclusion & active build configuration.

Maybe some overlapping deorator(s) in your case (have you already some decoration on which may hide exclusion one ?) ?

[KayJay]

Seems fixed in STM32CubeIDE v1.5.0. Thanks for investigating.

[Cartu38 OpenDev]

First guess was a CDT issue. At least facing same issue if 2020.03 Eclipse / CTD platform.

SM32CubeIDE 1.5.0 is relying now on 2020.06 platform.

[KayJay]

Can I ask this question again please? I've been using STM32CubeIDE v1.5.0 for a few weeks now with no problems but suddenly the build configurations are no longer showing the correct decorator icons. I've attached a sample minimum project that shows this problem on two different Windows 10 PCs running STM32CubeIDE v1.5.0. The project has two build configurations called "Config1" and "Config2":

The project explorer looks like this when configuration Config1 is selected. The box highlights a source folder that contains excluded resources:

 

Here's the build output for Config1 showing the resources are correctly excluded:

Here's the build output for Config2 showing the resources are correctly excluded:

 

...but the project explorer view hasn't changed. It's still showing the excluded resources for Config1 when I expect to see the excluded resources for Config2. I hope someone can repeat this from the attached project and let me know if I'm configuring the project wrong or if there's a problem with STM32CubeIDE. Thanks for any help.

[KayJay]

This problem was finally solved by changing a setting in the C/C++ indexer.

Window > Preferences > C/C++ General > Indexer:

Selecting "Use active build configuration" makes the excluded resource icon decorators behave as expected.