Deprecated API can be marked for deletion without requiring a major version increment. See the policy for the details. This section describes API removals that occurred in past releases, and upcoming removals in future releases.
Below is the detailed descriptions of API changes and mitigation efforts API consumers need to take.
The class DiscoveredPathContainerPage used a number of APIs in the Eclipse Platform removed in Eclipse 4.31 release. This class, while API, has not be used, nor usable since the CDT 4 release as it was only for CDT 3.x style projects. The class had been deprecated since 2010.
org.eclipse.tools.templates.freemarker, org.eclipse.tools.templates.freemarker.ui and org.eclipse.tools.templates.freemarker.core major version bumped
The major version numbers of the org.eclipse.tools.templates set of bundles has been bumped to 2.0.0 because of the changes outlined below.
The bundle of Freemarker has changed from org.freemarker to org.freemarker.freemarker. As part of this the re-exports of freemarker have been removed from org.eclipse.tools.templates.freemarker.
Consumers of org.eclipse.tools.templates.freemarker now need to add dependencies on freemarker to their own plugins. Must likely this will at least be a package import for "freemarker.template"
org.eclipse.tools.templates.ui no longer re-exports org.eclipse.tools.templates.core. Consumers may now need to add that dependency to their own plugins
The following fields have been be removed from the API of org.eclipse.cdt.ui.newui.AbstractPage as they were never intended to be accessible by the design. As far as the current CDT developers know, no one was using this API.
- org.eclipse.cdt.ui.newui.AbstractPage.noContentOnPage
- org.eclipse.cdt.ui.newui.AbstractPage.displayedConfig
- org.eclipse.cdt.ui.newui.AbstractPage.internalElement
- org.eclipse.cdt.ui.newui.AbstractPage.isProject
- org.eclipse.cdt.ui.newui.AbstractPage.isFolder
- org.eclipse.cdt.ui.newui.AbstractPage.isFile
- org.eclipse.cdt.ui.newui.AbstractPage.folder
- org.eclipse.cdt.ui.newui.AbstractPage.itabs
- org.eclipse.cdt.ui.newui.AbstractPage.currentTab
In addition, the following inner class has been removed from the API.
- org.eclipse.cdt.ui.newui.AbstractPage.InternalTab
See Bug 579666.
org.eclipse.cdt.dsf.gdb.breakpoints.Messages should never have been API, Messages classes generally should not be.
See eclipse-cdt#90
The following method is removed because it does not implement the ICommandLauncher interface. It has been deprecated since 2009:
- org.eclipse.cdt.core.CommandLauncher.execute(IPath, String[], String[], IPath)
Clients should instead use the equivilent method from the ICommandLauncher interface. See Bug 268615.
The following methods are removed because their use prevents cancellation of in-progress builds of core-build projects:
- org.eclipse.cdt.core.build.CBuildConfiguration.watchProcess(Process, IConsoleParser[], IConsole)
- org.eclipse.cdt.core.build.CBuildConfiguration.watchProcess(Process, IConsole)
- org.eclipse.cdt.core.build.CBuildConfiguration.watchProcess(Process, IConsoleParser[])
Clients should instead use the methods of the same name that take a progress monitor object. See Bug 580314.
To support presentation of the GDB command line within the process property page, a public method getDebuggerCommandLineArray() has been added to the org.eclipse.cdt.dsf.gdb.service.IGDBBackend interface and the following redundant protected methods have been removed:
- org.eclipse.cdt.dsf.gdb.service.GDBBackend.getDebuggerCommandLine()
- org.eclipse.cdt.dsf.gdb.service.GDBBackend.getGDBCommandLineArray()
Extenders that previously overrode the above protected methods should override org.eclipse.cdt.dsf.gdb.service.IGDBBackend.getDebuggerCommandLineArray() instead.
See Bug 572944 and eclipse-cdt#112.
For a while now the Qt plug-ins have had at least some issues. They rely on the Nashorn script engine which was removed in Java 15. The plug-ins have been removed in CDT 11. The following bundles and all their related API has been removed:
- org.eclipse.cdt.qt.ui
- org.eclipse.cdt.qt.core
See eclipse-cdt#123
Same instance of RandomAccessFile was shared between multiple objects which causes problems in closing it properly. A new constructor is introduced which accepts filename and opens a RandomAccessFile.
See eclipse-cdt#132
The following binary parser classes have been removed, mostly due to these versions not supporting 64-bit variants of the binary files.
The new 64-bit parsers support both 32 and 64 bit files and can be identified by the same name class followed by 64.
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.coff.Coff
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.coff.PE
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.coff.PEArchive
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.coff.parser.CygwinPEBinaryArchive
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.coff.parser.CygwinPEBinaryExecutable
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.coff.parser.CygwinPEBinaryObject
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.coff.parser.CygwinPEBinaryShared
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.coff.parser.CygwinPEParser
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.coff.parser.CygwinSymbol
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.coff.parser.PEBinaryArchive
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.coff.parser.PEBinaryExecutable
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.coff.parser.PEBinaryObject
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.coff.parser.PEBinaryShared
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.coff.parser.PEParser
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.macho.MachO
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.macho.MachOHelper
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.macho.parser.MachOBinaryArchive
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.macho.parser.MachOBinaryExecutable
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.macho.parser.MachOBinaryObject
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.macho.parser.MachOBinaryShared
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.macho.parser.MachOParser
In addition the following methods have been removed due to there existing a 64-bit compatible version.
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.debug.dwarf.Dwarf.Dwarf(PE), use Dwarf(PE64) constructor instead
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.debug.dwarf.Dwarf.init(PE), use init(PE64) method instead
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.debug.dwarf.DwarfReader.DwarfReader(PE), use DwarfReader(PE64) constructor instead
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.debug.dwarf.DwarfReader.init(PE), use init(PE64) method instead
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.debug.stabs.Stabs.init(PE), use init(PE64) method instead
See eclipse-cdt#135
To support tool chains having multiple binary parsers the singular return value methods have been replaced with versions returning lists. The following methods have been removed
ICBuildConfiguration.getBinaryParserId()replaced withICBuildConfiguration.getBinaryParserIds()IToolChain.getBinaryParserId()replaced withIToolChain.getBinaryParserIds()
See eclipse-cdt#75
Package org.eclipse.cdt.cmake.is.core.participant has been renamed to org.eclipse.cdt.jsoncdb.core.participant.
Affects CMake build, indexer support. Package org.eclipse.cdt.cmake.is.core.participant was inadvertently not marked as experimental. Third-party compiler vendors that provide a plugin teaching Eclipse CDT their compiler specific command-line options will have to update the import statements in their plugin's code. See Bug 564349.
Java 11 or greater is required for CDT. This means that the BREE for all CDT bundles is now Java 11. See Bug 562494.
The previous workaround for single-sourcing Java 8 and Java 11 has been removed. This means the org.eclipse.tools.templates.freemarker.java11 bundle fragment has been removed. See Bug 563494.
Prior to CDT 10 release API changes were published as part of the New and Noteworthy entries for that release. From CDT 10 forward breaking API changes are included in this document.
Across the CDT code base some previously deprecated code has been removed.
- EnvironmentReader.getRawEnvVars has been removed. Use EnvironmentReader.getEnvVars instead. See Bug 564123.
- GDBJtagStartupTab.createRunOptionGroup has been removed. Override GDBJtagStartupTab.createRunGroup instead. See Bug 566462.
- IGDBJtagConstants.ATTR_JTAG_DEVICE has been removed. Use IGDBJtagConstants.ATTR_JTAG_DEVICE_ID to persist device ID rather than device name. See Bug 566462.
- IGDBJtagConstants.DEFAULT_JTAG_DEVICE has been removed. Use a local String if necessary. See Bug 566462.
- IGDBJtagConstants.DEFAULT_JTAG_DEVICE_ID has been removed. Use a local String if necessary. See Bug 566462.
- IGDBJtagDevice.getDefaultIpAddress has been removed. Implement IGDBJtagConnection and specify default_connection in JTagDevice extension XML instead. See Bug 566462.
- IGDBJtagDevice.getDefaultPortNumber has been removed. Implement IGDBJtagConnection and specify default_connection in JTagDevice extension XML instead. See Bug 566462.
- IGDBJtagDevice.doRemote has been removed. Implement IGDBJtagConnection.doRemote instead. See Bug 566462.
- PTY constructor PTY(boolean console) has been removed. Use PTY(Mode mode) instead.
- org.eclipse.cdt.core.browser.PathUtil has been removed. Use org.eclipse.cdt.utils.PathUtil instead. See Bug 564123.
- org.eclipse.cdt.launch.ui.CMainTab has been removed. This was part of the long since removed CDI and has no use. See Bug 566530.
- org.eclipse.cdt.launch.ui.CMainCoreTab has been removed. This was part of the long since removed CDI and has no use. See Bug 566530.
- org.eclipse.cdt.launch.ui.CMainAttachTab has been removed. This was part of the long since removed CDI and has no use. See Bug 566530.
A review of the previously exported API of CDT was performed. A lot of
what was previously marked as public API has now been marked as
internal. This means the API has either had x-internal or x-friends
added to the Export-Package declarations.
The following bundles have had all their packages exported as internal See Bug 561389:
- org.eclipse.cdt.cmake.ui
- org.eclipse.cdt.autotools.core
- org.eclipse.cdt.core.autotools.core
- org.eclipse.cdt.core.autotools.ui
- org.eclipse.cdt.autotools.tests
- org.eclipse.cdt.autotools.ui.tests
- org.eclipse.cdt.build.crossgcc
- org.eclipse.cdt.cmake.ui
- org.eclipse.cdt.build.gcc.core
- org.eclipse.cdt.build.gcc.ui
- org.eclipse.cdt.codan.checkers.ui.tests
- org.eclipse.tools.templates.ui
The following bundles had additional changes made to be able to mark packages as internal:
Where possible bundles have had their Activators removed. Some of these activators were API and are no longer available. See Bug 561635 for workarounds where items that used to be in Activators are still needed, such as logging and plug-ids.
The following Activators that were API have been removed.
- org.eclipse.tools.templates.ui
The NewClassCreationWizardPage has some API breaking changes due to how
some protected fields, especially ALL_FIELDS was used. While this
breaks binary compatibility, no code changes should be needed in
extenders, just compiling against the new version. See
Bug 510789 and
Bug 561770.
The CDT Arduino plug-ins and features have been removed. Arduino can still be used with CDT with manual maintenance of packages, etc. Or a third-party add-on such as Sloeber can be used as a replacement.
The bundles and features that have been removed are:
- org.eclipse.cdt.arduino-feature
- org.eclipse.cdt.arduino.core.tests
- org.eclipse.cdt.arduino.core
- org.eclipse.cdt.arduino.ui
See Bug 562498.
The LR, UPC and XLC support have been removed from CDT. The bundles have not been maintained for a while and were not functional anymore.
The bundles and features that have been removed are:
- org.eclipse.cdt.core.lrparser.feature
- org.eclipse.cdt.core.lrparser.sdk.branding
- org.eclipse.cdt.core.lrparser.sdk.feature
- org.eclipse.cdt.core.lrparser.tests
- org.eclipse.cdt.core.lrparser
- org.eclipse.cdt.bupc-feature
- org.eclipse.cdt.core.parser.upc.feature
- org.eclipse.cdt.core.parser.upc.sdk.branding
- org.eclipse.cdt.core.parser.upc.sdk.feature
- org.eclipse.cdt.core.parser.upc.tests
- org.eclipse.cdt.core.parser.upc
- org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.bupc.ui
- org.eclipse.cdt.core.lrparser.xlc.tests
- org.eclipse.cdt.core.lrparser.xlc
- org.eclipse.cdt.errorparsers.xlc.tests
- org.eclipse.cdt.errorparsers.xlc
- org.eclipse.cdt.make.xlc.core
- org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.xlc.core
- org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.xlc.ui
- org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.xlupc.ui
- org.eclipse.cdt.xlc.feature
- org.eclipse.cdt.xlc.sdk-feature
- org.eclipse.cdt.xlc.sdk.branding
See Bug 562498.
Class org.eclipse.cdt.utils.Platform has been removed. Use org.eclipse.core.runtime.Platform instead.
See Bug 564123.
DSF and DSF-GDB have had some small API changes, but they are still breaking changes and are listed here:
- org.eclipse.cdt.dsf.gdb.launching.GdbLaunchDelegate.getCLILabel(ILaunchConfiguration, String) has been removed. Use org.eclipse.cdt.dsf.gdb.launching.GdbLaunchDelegate.getCLILabel(GdbLaunch, ILaunchConfiguration, String) instead. See Bug 564553.
CDT 3.X projects have been deprecated since CDT 4.0. Some classes supporting this old version have been removed:
- org.eclipse.cdt.make.ui.wizards.ConvertToMakeProjectWizard
- org.eclipse.cdt.make.ui.wizards.ConvertToMakeProjectWizardPage
- org.eclipse.cdt.make.ui.wizards.MakeProjectWizardOptionPage
- org.eclipse.cdt.make.ui.wizards.NewMakeCCProjectWizard
- org.eclipse.cdt.make.ui.wizards.NewMakeCProjectWizard
- org.eclipse.cdt.make.ui.wizards.NewMakeProjectWizard
See Bug 564949.
The CDT Core Options API and implementation has been removed as now it is a part of Eclipse Equinox 4.16 Preferences API, the removed packages are:
- org.eclipse.cdt.core.options
- org.eclipse.cdt.internal.core.options
See Bug 565154.
The TM Terminal's control (org.eclipse.tm.terminal.control) bundle has a major new version to support numerous API changes to support features such as new colors, preference sharing and some other code clean-up.
- org.eclipse.tm.terminal.model.Style removed and is mostly replaced by org.eclipse.tm.terminal.model.TerminalStyle. To handle new API and color handling, the entire Style class was replaced with TerminalStyle that operates in a similar way. Because some methods in TerminalStyle have similar signatures to those in removed Style class a new class was introduced to prevent accidental use of incorrect API. See Bug 562495.
- org.eclipse.tm.terminal.model.StyleColor removed. Replaced by a new way of representing standard color in the terminal using the new enum org.eclipse.tm.terminal.model.TerminalColor.. See Bug 562495.
- org.eclipse.tm.terminal.model.ITerminalTextData method taking or returning Style now use TerminalStyle. See Bug 562495.
- org.eclipse.tm.terminal.model.ITerminalTextDataReadOnly method taking or returning Style now use TerminalStyle. See Bug 562495.
- org.eclipse.tm.terminal.model.LineSegment method taking or returning Style now use TerminalStyle. See Bug 562495.
The handling of environment and build variables in CDT has changed to being case sensitive. This means some API changes to remove methods such as isVariableCaseSensitive (see full list below). The PATH and dome other special environment variables in CDT are always uppercased, such as Path. See Bug 564123.
- org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.core.IBuilder.isVariableCaseSensitive() removed.
- org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.envvar.IEnvironmentVariableProvider.isVariableCaseSensitive() removed.
- org.eclipse.cdt.core.envvar.IEnvironmentVariableManager.isVariableCaseSensitive() removed.
This change is not literally an api change but will impact your code if you used \${ to not expand environment variables. It may impact your code if you import environment variables and had to workaround path\${childPath} resolving to path${childPath}. See Bug 560330.
- org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.core.IBuilder.isVariableCaseSensitive() removed.
- org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.envvar.IEnvironmentVariableProvider.isVariableCaseSensitive() removed.
- org.eclipse.cdt.core.envvar.IEnvironmentVariableManager.isVariableCaseSensitive() removed.
The binary parsers part of CDT core now implement the AutoCloseable interface and can be used in try-with-resources blocks. See list below for all the classes that are now AutoCloseable. See Bug 553674.
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.coff.Exe
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.coff.PE
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.coff.PE64
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.coff.PEArchive
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.elf.Elf
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.elf.ElfHelper
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.AR
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.elf.AR
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.som.AR
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.xcoff.AR
- org.eclipse.cdt.utils.macho.AR
Classes org.eclipse.cdt.core.dom.ast.cpp.ICPPASTDeductionGuide and org.eclipse.cdt.core.dom.ast.cpp.ICPPASTParameterListOwner which were added for CDT 10.0.0 have been removed in CDT 10.0.1. See Bug 567261.
The items below can be removed after the given date or on a major release, whichever is sooner. The details and discussion on the removal happens in the GitHub issue (or Bugzilla) associated with the entry below. See the policy for the details.
The BaudRate enum in org.eclipse.cdt.serial package will be removed. The following APIs will be removed, listed with their replacement.
- org.eclipse.cdt.serial.BaudRate, use org.eclipse.cdt.serial.StandardBaudRates to obtain typical baud rate values
- org.eclipse.cdt.serial.SerialPort.setBaudRate(BaudRate), use org.eclipse.cdt.serial.SerialPort.setBaudRateValue(int) instead
- org.eclipse.cdt.serial.SerialPort.getBaudRate(), use org.eclipse.cdt.serial.SerialPort.getBaudRateValue() instead
- org.eclipse.tm.terminal.connector.cdtserial.connector.SerialSettings.getBaudRate(), use org.eclipse.tm.terminal.connector.cdtserial.connector.SerialSettings.getBaudRateValue() instead
- org.eclipse.tm.terminal.connector.cdtserial.connector.SerialSettings.setBaudRate(BaudRate), use org.eclipse.tm.terminal.connector.cdtserial.connector.SerialSettings.setBaudRateValue(int) instead
See Bug 563108.
To allow extenders to know the context of a generated command line, the ITool instance was added to ManagedCommandLineGenerator.toManagedCommandLineInfo method and the method without the ITool parameter will be removed:
- org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.core.ManagedCommandLineGenerator.toManagedCommandLineInfo(String, String, String, String[], String, String, String, String[])
Extenders that override the above protected method should override org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.core.ManagedCommandLineGenerator.toManagedCommandLineInfo(ITool, String, String, String, String[], String, String, String, String[]) instead.
See Bug 573254.
The implementation for how post-build steps are generated was changed. The "bEmitPostBuildStepCall"-parameter is thus no longer needed.
- org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.makegen.gnu.GnuMakefileGenerator.addRuleForTool(ITool, StringBuffer, boolean, String, String, List<String>, Vector<String>, boolean)
Extenders that override the above protected method should override org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.makegen.gnu.GnuMakefileGenerator.addRuleForTool(ITool, StringBuffer, boolean, String, String, List<String>, Vector<String>) instead.
See Bug 573502.
The implementation for generating the header in the make resources was changed. The following APIs will be removed, listed with their (non-static) replacement.
- org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.makegen.gnu.GnuMakefileGenerator.populateDummyTargets(IConfiguration, IFile, boolean), use org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.makegen.gnu.GnuMakefileGenerator.generateDummyTargets(IConfiguration, IFile, boolean) instead.
- org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.makegen.gnu.GnuMakefileGenerator.populateDummyTargets(IResourceInfo, IFile, boolean), use org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.makegen.gnu.GnuMakefileGenerator.generateDummyTargets(IResourceInfo, IFile, boolean) instead.
- org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.makegen.gnu.GnuMakefileGenerator.addDefaultHeader(), use org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.makegen.gnu.GnuMakefileGenerator.addGenericHeader() instead.
See Bug 573722.
The following classes will be removed from the API.
- org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.makegen.gnu.GnuMakefileGenerator
- org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.makegen.gnu.IManagedBuildGnuToolInfo
- org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.makegen.gnu.ManagedBuildGnuToolInfo
See Bug 505882.
The following constants will be removed from the Spawner API.
- NOOP
- HUP
- KILL
- TERM
- INT
- CTRLC
The following fields will be removed from the API as it is not thread safe. Use the patten instead and call matcher(input) to obtain a matcher.
- org.eclipse.cdt.jsoncdb.core.participant.Arglets.NameOptionMatcher.matcher
- org.eclipse.cdt.jsoncdb.core.participant.DefaultToolDetectionParticipant.toolNameMatchersExt
- org.eclipse.cdt.jsoncdb.core.participant.DefaultToolDetectionParticipant.toolNameMatchersExtBackslash
See Bug 578683.
The following method will be removed from the API as it encourages non-safe constructs of reusing Matchers instead of Patterns.
- org.eclipse.cdt.jsoncdb.core.participant.Arglets.BuiltinDetectionArgsGeneric.processArgument(IArgumentCollector, String, Matcher[]) - use org.eclipse.cdt.jsoncdb.core.participant.Arglets.BuiltinDetectionArgsGeneric.processArgument(IArgumentCollector, String, Pattern[]) instead
See Bug 579982.
The class BuiltinDetctionArgsGeneric will be removed. Use the correctly spelled BuiltinDetectionArgsGeneric instead.
- org.eclipse.cdt.jsoncdb.core.participant.Arglets.BuiltinDetctionArgsGeneric
FinalLaunchSequence.stepRemoteConnection() and FinalLaunchSequence.stepAttachRemoteToDebugger() will be removed
These APIs will be removed and remote connection for attach launch will be moved in the implementation of IGDBProcesses.attachDebuggerToProcess().
See eclipse-cdt#336
These APIs will be removed and are replaced by versions with requestor parameter.
- org.eclipse.tm.internal.terminal.control.ITerminalListener.setTerminalTitle(String)
- org.eclipse.tm.internal.terminal.provisional.api.ITerminalControl.setTerminalTitle(String)
- org.eclipse.tm.internal.terminal.control.ITerminalViewControl.setTerminalTitle(String)
See eclipse-cdt#494
These APIs will be removed as they aren't used in CDT and have no known use case outside CDT either.
- org.eclipse.cdt.core.build.CBuildConfiguration.getScannerInfoCache()
See eclipse-cdt#558