Setting up Eclipse with C

[alkatran]

I'm trying to setup the Eclipse IDE for C and C++ and I need to install 'make' and 'gcc'.

I have no idea how to go about this. Searching these on google is no help.


I'm installing eclipse because I don't like using the editor on our university unix server: pico (aka less than notepad)

[CyberSurfer]

I assume you're trying to do this on a Unix / Linux system???

[alkatran]

I assume you're trying to do this on a Unix / Linux system???

Nope. Windows. I'm pretty sure 'make' is included by default with unix. I've tried installing 'cygwin' but not really sure how to use it with eclipse.

[CyberSurfer]

If you look at the FAQ page here: http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/, it seems that for Windows you just need to be running Java. Make and GCC are *NIX specific tools although I dare say you could get them working with Cygwin.

[DeadEyes]

It would appear you need to get
MinGW or Cygwin
then in Eclipse

Use the following URL in a Site Bookmark in the update manager:

http://download.eclipse.org/tools/cd...ses/eclipse3.1

To install CDT from the update site, in the Help menu select Software Updates and then Find and Install, Select Search for new features to install and click Next. Click New Remote Site to add an update with the URL provided above, and then expand the site node to reveal the available downloads.

Zip files are available at the same location.

[alkatran]

it works now