Introduction to Eclipse

What is Eclipse? An Integrated Development Environment Provides many features to ease C++ programming (and others, e.g. C/Java) Editor Debugger Source Control …

Getting Eclipse At the CS labs … It ’ s already installed At home … Download at:

Installing and Running Eclipse Installation is very simple Just download eclipseInstaller.exe Running Eclipse Then click eclipseInstaller.exe Eclipse will start running if all the prerequisites are met Demo: Run Eclipse

Setting up your Workspace Workspace is where your projects and programs are stored. Usually some directory in the file system The workspace is set when Eclipse starts In this course, for instance, we may set the work space to C:\Users\ \workspace All code will be saved in this directory Demo

Some important concepts about Eclipse Environment Workbench Perspective Views Editor …

Workbench The term Workbench refers to the desktop development environment The Workbench aims to achieve seamless tool integration and controlled openness by providing a common paradigm for the creation, management, and navigation of workspace resources.

Understanding Perspective Each Workbench window contains one or more perspectives Each perspective provides a set of functionality aimed at accomplishing a specific type of task or works with specific types of resources. For example, the Java perspective combines views that you would commonly use while editing Java source files, while the C/C++ perspective contains the views that you would use for editing C++ files You might need switch perspectives frequently.

Built-in Eclipse Perspectives Resource Arrange your files and projects. C++ Develop programs in the C++ language. Debug Diagnose and debug problems that occur at runtime.

Views Views support editors and provide alternative presentations as well as ways to navigate the information in your Workbench. For example, the Navigator and other navigation views display projects and other resources that you are working with.

Editors Most perspectives in the Workbench are comprised of an editor area and one or more views You can associate different editors with different types of files. Any number of editors can be open at once, but only one can be active at a time.

Creating C++ Projects Demo: Creating a project in the workspace

Running the code Currently, no implementation is provided in the given files. You are expected to fill the implementation details. We need a cpp file which has a main() method as the entrance for execution Demo: Adding the main() method in HelloWorld.cpp and run the program

Other issues Demo: Removing files from the project Build Window->Preferences Project->Properties … Eclipse provides a very good Help system “ Help->Help Contents ” for more information

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