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• Enabling command-line applications for your Eclipse projects
• AnyEdit tools plugin for Eclipse (via)

Cross-platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets (via). Exactly 8 links to this pdf across the web, but seems to be legit.

If Eclipse-LazyStart is set to false in MANIFEST.MF, then the plugin's Activator doesn't get invoked.

• [news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: Plugin Activation
• Eclipse Help: OSGi Bundle Manifest Headers

• Patrick Paulin: Why create a custom target platform?
• EclipseLive: Defining Your own Extension Points
• Patrick Paulin: RCP Target Platform Tips
• Eugene Kuleshov: Maven POM editor screen mockups

... and for a MSVCR80D.dll not found error, on my machine it was tied to a FAT32 timestamp-related issue. Project Properties / Manifest Tool / General / Use FAT32 Workaround = Yes solves the problem (via).

MyEclipse has a problem with non-Java files being opened with the wrong font:

• Eclipse bugzilla: [EditorMgmt] Text font "forgotten" in non-Java files
• MyEclipse forum: Where did the Font Properties go? , Font settings

Fix only due MyEclipse 6.5. Bah.

After building MySQL++ libraries, trying to run simple2 results in the error

This application has failed to start because msvcp80d.dll was not found

Solutions: easiest is to toggle switch and disable manifest embedding, but there is a deeper problem (which I'll read up on some day, but not today).

Tuning busy Linux boxes