Eclipse fails to compile C project when using a flags - c

I'm trying to compile a C project with Eclipse, under Ubuntu 12.10 using GCC.
When I use these flags:
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eclipse fails to compile.
The compilation error is the following:
error: ISO C forbids an empty translation unit [-pedantic]
make: *** [.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.cdt.make.core/specs.o] Error 1
Why do these problems appear,
and how should I compile with eclipse with the checked flags?
When trying to compile manually from the Terminal with these flags, it compiles successfully. thanks!

Your C project has an empty source file.
You can either:
1) Remove that file. If it is empty why do you need it?
2) Be more relax with your compilation flags, with -pedantic instead of -pedantic-errors for example
3) Add some dumb code to make gcc believe the file is not empty, for example add #include <stdio.h>.

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TDS.h:27:2: error: unknown type name ‘index_t’
In file included from TDSVDHNGateway.c:2:0:
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TDSVDHNGateway.c:37:3: error: unknown type name ‘index_t’
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typedef size_t index_t;
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In GNU C, you may use C++ style comments, which start with ‘//’ and continue until the end of the line. Many other C implementations allow such comments, and they are included in the 1999 C standard. However, C++ style comments are not recognized if you specify an -std option specifying a version of ISO C before C99, or -ansi (equivalent to -std=c90).
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Its running fine. Check : http://ideone.com/bhjlf
I guess your command to compile is wrong.

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