
Step 2: Install Eclipse C/C++ Development Tool (CDT) We will not go into the details of the installation of these compilers, but we will provide the appropriate links that will be useful to our readers. We can either have ‘MinGW’ or ‘Cygwin’ compiler on our machine that will be used by eclipse. Hence before we can start using Eclipse CDT for C/C++ development, we need to have a proper GCC compiler on our system. Please follow the following steps to install and configure Eclipse IDE for C/C++.Įclipse CDT uses C/C++ Compiler. In order to install and configure Eclipse IDE for C/C++ development, firstly, we need to make sure that we have an appropriate GCC compiler on our machine. Provides excellent visual code debugging tool to debug the code.Supports various source knowledge tools like folding and hyperlink navigation, grading, macro definition browser, code editing with syntax highlighting.Supports project development and administered framework for different toolchains, classic make framework, and source navigation.Eclipse has a wonderful user interface with drag and drop facility for UI designing.We can extend the functionality of Eclipse IDE by adding plugins to the IDE, maybe for additional programming language or version control system or UML.Almost everything in Eclipse is a plugin.Features Of Eclipse IDEĮnlisted below are the features of Eclipse IDE:

In this tutorial, we will explore the features of the Eclipse IDE with respect to C/C++ development (Eclipse CDT) and also discuss all the steps to setup eclipse on our computer to begin development.


The development environment for Eclipse includes:
