Eclipse- C/C++

Question

I recently decided to learn C/C++ in preparation for a coding class I will take in a few months so I downloaded and installed Eclipse. When I was going through the tutorials for

Answer 1

Your path settings may not be carrying through to your toolchain. To be sure, add the full path to your MinGW binaries folder to your Windows path and restart. (Cygwin binaries folder (C:\Cygwin64\bin, on my system) for Cygwin users).

Answer 2

I have some experience with Eclipse C/C++

The first thing that I suggest is that you do a test by starting a new project and then click on the 'new hello world' option rather than 'empty project' that should set up all of your project. - When you have done this you should be able to run the program using the buttons in Eclipse.

If it works you are done - you can modify the program to whatever you wish and everything is made for ou.

If it does not work you have an issues, most likely with Eclipse not finding the compiler. You may be able to tell this when you start a new project as it will show the compilers that it has found on the right hand side of a start project window.

Hope this helps. In my experience Eclipse is really great, but has so many options it can be a little daunting and I know I don't use all the potential it has.

If you are really stuck try using PELLES instead of Eclipse - in my experience this is alot easier to get started with.