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Cygwin and Eclipse Helios setup


I am trying to learn C++ with Cygwin and Eclipse Helios. I got all the development tools under Cygwin installed; and installed the CDT package for Helios.

The problem is I don't see an option to create a C++ project from makefile or any other option. I can only see options for a C Project, C++ project and a new project from existing source code.

Here is what I referred to:

Questions:

  1. Is there any clear guide to setup Eclipse for Cygwin?
  2. Am I missing something in the setup?

any other suggestion will be helpful.


Solution

  • Are you asking how to setup GCC in cygwin + Eclipse? How about this tutorial?