title: Building a project configuration in Eclipse from commandline
body: <p>We use Eclipse to build our projects.</p>
  
  <p>In Jenkins we have a build script which runs over the projects and imports them to eclipse for it to build.</p>
  
  <p>The issue I have is that all build configurations are built on every build from the commandline.
  (Release, release_shared, release_static, Debug, debug_shared, debug_static)</p>
  
  <p>This not only takes a huge amount of time but for many projects some of these configurations are not needed to be monitored yet.
  What I am asking is there a commandline switch of specifying the project and then the specific build configuration to use.</p>
  
  <p>using msbuild I would do the following</p>
  
  <pre><code>msbuild test.vcxproj /property:Configuration=Release
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>this would build the test project with the Release configuration.</p>
  
  <p>In the documentation it suggests incremental build, clean, all but this is confusing as these all do a similar thing when actioned. There is also a switch for architecture type but nothing I can find that would point to project configuration as a whole.</p>
  
  <p>Does this ability exist in eclipse ? </p>