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Eclipse has lots of project wizards and other ways of creating a new project. Here are the ones that are most often useful in IOC development:
Use a directory created outside Eclipse (e.g. with eco or git):
A directory where you can run "make" can be brought into Eclipse as a project. You can create a subdirectory of the workspace directory, and run makeBaseApp.pl there, use eco, use something you already have outside the workspace directory, copy or check out a directory... The important thing is the you start with a directory where you can run "make" (e.g. top of IOC or module).
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