[Avr-eclipse-user] How to use AVR Eclipse plugin with existing Makefile?

[Kerry L. <ker...@gm...>]

Greetings,

I am trying to migrate from AVR Studio 4 (on a Windows XP VM)
to Eclipse CDT (on a Linux VM) for a large C project. I just about
have the Eclipse CDT w/ AVR plugin working for a new project
(still trying to get avarice and avr-gdb to work).  But I will ultimately
need to build an existing code base for AVR.

I have created a New->Makefile Project with Existing Code->AVR-GCC
Toolchain project, but I don't see the AVR plugin in the project's
properties.  Hence, I cannot upload or debug the target yet under
Eclipse.

Is there a way to do this?  I've looked at "Convert to a C/C++ project"
but my project doesn't show up as a candidate for conversion.  Also I
should mention the root directory for this project is not in my default
workspace, but changing the workspace doesn't seem to affect the
ability to convert the project either.

TIA, -K-