Eclipse - How to develop C++ code?

You need CDT (easy to google...).

Create a new C++ project and create (copy&paste from an example) a Makefile in it. Then it should work.

Edit: that way to do it is probably somewhat outdated, so RTFM

Warning: I tried Eclipse and C++ together, even when I followed all the instructions to the letter, it still didn't like it. I gave up after 3 hours fiddling and went back to Dev-C++.

You may find it works a charm - I didn't.

Did you try it with the recently released CDT 3.0? I tried it when CDT 1.x was current and didn't like it at that time.

It looks like it has been improved a lot, but I haven't had time to try it.

You need a compiler also. If you are on unix like OS then you have gcc. On windows you can install MinGW. It works like a charm :D

My office mate uses Eclipse for his java development. I hear screams of pain all day long from it locking up on him during something as simple as typing text. It'll literally take a couple minutes to return control after typing a single keystroke. Has any one else run into this using Eclipse?

He was going to try to use it for his c++ development until he had all these problems. Now he's one hang away from uninstalling it haha.

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Original post by helix My office mate uses Eclipse for his java development. I hear screams of pain all day long from it locking up on him during something as simple as typing text. It'll literally take a couple minutes to return control after typing a single keystroke. Has any one else run into this using Eclipse?

Older versions were resource hogs. Each release has improved the situation so that now it's much better. Still, the more memory in the system the better. Also, don't forget there are several Hotspot command line options that can be used to tweak an apps performance. This command line should help make Eclipse snappier even on slower machines (assuming that Eclipse is being run from the JDK and not the JRE as the JRE does not ship with a server version):

C:\eclipse\eclipse.exe -server -XX:CompileThreshold=100 -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+UseParNewGC -Xincgc -Xms64m -Xmx128m -XX:JavaPriority10_To_OSPriority=10 -XX:JavaPriority9_To_OSPriority=9

On Windows you can right click the Eclipse icon on the desktop, select properties, and paste that into the 'target' textfield. Make sure to use the correct path, of course.

Well, I'm earning my money w/ Java software developed using Eclipse (version 3.1, linux). It works fine for me since I'm using a 3GHz P4 w/ 1 GB RAM (before that it was actually a pain, especially as soon as my computer run out of available RAM).

I've tried to use CDT some month ago for a C++ project, but I haven't spend enough time to come to a workable solution. The problem was not CDT itself but the already existing project w/ complex makefiles I wanted to fit into CDT. IMO CDT is worse to be tried if it is similarly comfortable as the Java plug-ins are.

Thanks for those command line switches, I'll forward it to him to see if it helps him at all.


Has anyone tried JEdit? I have a couple friends who were big into it for years for all their python, c++, java, etc development. I tried it but was far more happy with Visual Studio despite all it's problems.