Installing Eclipse

Java is a pre-requisite for Eclipse. if you don't have java installed on you system, download it from http://www.java.com
Eclipse can be downloaded from http://eclipse.org/downloads.


as shown in The screenshot of www.eclipse.org/downloads, it is interesting to see how many different variants of Eclipse are available.
Eclipse is extensible. also, being based on java,
Eclipse can run a wide variety of platforms. be in linux/ macintosh or windows. Since we are targeting C/C++ Development, please download the C/C++ variant of Eclipse from http://eclipse.org/downloads. for you system.

Warning
On Linux, there maybe some issues with GCJ. (Eclipsepedia entry on GCJ. [http://wiki.eclipse.org/SDK_Known_Issues#Eclipse_using_GCJ] )


Note
If you already have Eclipse, and want to extend it to have C/C++ development functionality, please refer installing CDT
Windows
 Once you have downloaded the archive, unzip it to, say, C:\eclipse. Now you can start Eclipse by double clickin on C:\eclipse\eclipse.exe.
 warning|
There maybe some issues with Windows extraction utility. (Eclipsepedia entry on Zip [http://wiki.eclipse.org/SDK_Know_Issues#Extracting_the_ZIP_file_fails])
Linux 32bit
cd /opt
tar -xvzf /path/to/eclipse-cpp-galileo-SR1-linux-gtk.tar.gz
# you can now run Eclipse IDE as /opt/eclipse/eclipse
Linux 64bit
If you are using 64bit Linux and 64bit JVM download the 64bit version of Eclipse. If your JVM is 32bit, you can use the 32 bit version of Eclipse for Linux

cd /opt
tar -xvzf /path/to/eclipse-cpp-galileo-SR1-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz#you can now run Eclipse IDE as /opt/eclipse/eclipse
Mac OS-X
Download the appropriate archive for Cocoa from http://eclipse.org/downloads and unzip to a folder of you choice. You can start Eclipse by clicking the Eclipse icon. For you convenience, you may also choose drog and drop the Eclipse icon to you launch dock.
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