Note that there are many combinations of Eclipse versions, plugins and supporting tools that can be used to successfully build C and C++ applications using the GCC toolchain, this document is the recommended way by JBLopen but readers are free to modify their development environment to suit their needs.

This guide is written with embedded software development for MCU and SoCs in mind but can be used with any GCC toolchain regardless of the intended target. This guide is targeted at readers who need to set up a GCC toolchain within a vanilla Eclipse installation. This guide is the first part of a Linux version of the guide we previously wrote dealing with setting up an embedded software toolchain within Eclipse.

This guide is targeted at Linux users, similar instructions for Windows can be found here. $ sudo vi /usr/share/applications/eclipse.A PDF version of this guide, including project setup and debugging is available in the Documentation section. If you are using GNOME desktop, you can create a desktop launch file, so that you can launch Eclipse by clicking on a desktop icon. If you want, you can set these environment variables system-wide. Next, set up ECLIPSE_HOME environment variable, and modify PATH environment variable to add a path to the eclipse executable. For 64-bit system, you will need eclipse-SDK-3.7.2-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz instead. Note that eclipse-SDK-3.7. in the example above is a binary for 32-bit system. $ sudo tar -xvzf eclipse-SDK-3.7. -C /usr/local Unzip the downloaded Eclipse SDK tarball, and install it wherever you prefer (e.g., /usr/local) as follows. Make sure to know whether your system is a 32-bit or 64-bit system, and download Eclipse accordingly. Then go ahead and download Eclipse SDK from Eclipse official website. In order to install Eclipse SDK on Linux, you can do the following.įirst, you need to install Java development toolkit (JDK). Eclipse comes equipped with extensible plug-ins, toolkits and run-time libraries. Eclipse is a software development environment that supports code development in Java as well as other languages such as C/C++ and PHP.

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