Monday, September 20, 2010

Installing Eclipse C++ CDT with Linux Tools for debugging and profiling applications on Linux

The Eclipse incubation project Linux Tools integrates C/C++ Development tools.
It's a GUI plugin to integrate tools like Valgrind, GProf, GCov, SystemTap etc into the Eclipse C++ CDT IDE.

[Articles on Linux Tools]
Download page of Eclipse Helios gives 2 good alternatives for C++ developers on Linux:
  • Java6 JRE update :apt-get install sun-java6-jre
  • Unzip the Eclipse tarball and run the eclipse binary from inside the tarball: 
          tar -zxf eclipse-cpp-helios-linux-gtk.tar.gz && ./eclipse

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[Cpp Check tool integration with Eclipse]
  • cppcheclipse integration of with Eclipse CDT from (google code):
  • About: http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/cppcheclipse/
  • Wiki: http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/cppcheclipse/wiki/Installation
  • Download: http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/cppcheclipse/downloads/list