Eclipse: How to move the .externalToolBuilders directory?

Question

I have built a small External Tool Builders for 3 eclipse projects. How can I tell eclipse to use a (shared) directory outsite of the project directory?

I figgerd out that eclipse stores that settings in the .project file. But it seems that it is not possible to change the value:

<buildCommand>
    <name>org.eclipse.ui.externaltools.ExternalToolBuilder</name>
    <arguments>
        <dictionary>
            <key>LaunchConfigHandle</key>
            <value>&lt;project&gt;/.externalToolBuilders/do cleanup.launch</value>
        </dictionary>
    </arguments>
</buildCommand>

I tied the values:

• <project>/../MyUtils/ExternalToolBuilders/do cleanup.launch
• ../MyUtils/ExternalToolBuilders/do cleanup.launch
• x:/full/path/to/file/do cleanup.launch

Answer 1

Try this:

<dictionary>
    <key>LaunchConfigHandle</key>
    <value>&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?&gt;&lt;launchConfiguration local=&quot;false&quot; path=&quot;/MyUtils/ExternalToolBuilders/docleanup.launch&quot;/&gt;</value>
</dictionary>