Launch Failed. Binary not found. CDT on Eclipse Helios

Question

I\'m using Eclipse Helios on Ubuntu 10.04, and I\'m trying to install CDT plugin on it. I download it from here here.

And then I go to Install New Software<

Answer 1

I was having this same problem and found the solution in the anwser to another question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1951132/425749

Basically, installing CDT does not install a compiler, and Eclipse's error messages are not explicit about this.

Answer 2

make sure you have GDB installed on your system...

If your using Linux based OS simply in a terminal type:

sudo apt-get install gdt 

when finished downloading extract the file and install.

close your IDE (in this case eclipse and open it again and run your project.

Answer 3

My problem was the same as one commenter above. I had to change the binary parser to the correct one (PE for windows, ELF for Linux, mach for mac)

Answer 4

If you still have an error even after building the project then try to do this:

• click on Binaries in Project Explorer with the left button
• click on green "Play" button (Run Debug)

Answer 5

Go to the Run->Run Configuration-> now

Under C/C++ Application you will see the name of your executable + Debug (if not, click over C/C++ Application a couple of times). Select the name (in this case projectTitle+Debug).

Under this in main Tab -> C/C++ application -> Search your project -> in binaries select your binary titled by your project....

Answer 6

I had this problem for a long while and I couldn't figure out the answer. I had added all the paths, built everything and pretty much followed what everyone on here had suggested, but no luck.

Finally I read the comments and saw that there were some compilation errors that were aborting the procedure before the binaries and exe file was generated.

Bottom line: Do a code review and make sure that there are no errors in your code because sometimes eclipse will not always catch everything.

If you can run a basic hello world but not your code then obviously something is wrong with your code. I learned the hard way.