FreeRTOS, Eclipse IDE, and Syntax Errors

Question

I have a slight annoyance when dealing with FreeRTOS code in Eclipse and I'm not sure if it's just me or if other people have this issue too but I see a lot of syntax errors highlighted in my code but it compiles/executes fine. The syntax errors seem to be caused by FreeRTOS specific code like:

signed portCHAR *x;

or

vSemaphoreCreateBinary (semaphore);

or

signed portBASE_TYPE gpsTaskStart (void)
{
  return xTaskCreate (vGPSTask, (const signed portCHAR * const) "GPS", configMINIMAL_STACK_SIZE, NULL, (tskIDLE_PRIORITY + 1), &taskHandles [TASKHANDLE_GPS]);
}

I was wondering if there was a way to configure Eclipse to parse this syntax properly.

Answer 1

I think you just have to update your Eclipse project configuration for the incremental checker to be able to find FreeRTOS symbol definitions.

Right click on your project > Properties > C/C++ General > Path and Symbols > Includes. Add the FreeRTOS folder there.