Installing Eclipse CDT and MinGW

Eclipse CDT - http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/
MinGW (not needed for Mac or Linux) - http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Automated%20MinGW%20Installer/min...

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• Installing
• Eclipse CDT
• MinGW

[slrdr]

Super! Short and absolutely clear. Thanks a lot! But how about installing MinGW as a part of Cygwin? For serous things people will need those tools like make, bash and so on, especially those who use Eclipse CDT to develop cross platform applications. For cross platform development on Windows as on a host system it's convenient to have similar environment and tools as in Linux for example.

[ReelLearning]

@slrdr Thank You. I think videos that cover the installation of cygwin, use of the various tools from cygwin and cross development would be great! I know there are many beginning embedded system developers that would appreciate it. My goal with this video and using MinGW was to provide a "minimal" environment for Windows users learning programming/C++.

[JzBosco]

Same problem with this version of Eclipse. More better- download Helios from Sandford U computer science page for cs106a- then run the update and then the install new software choosing C/C++ Development Tools-- perfect, not to mention a good plug-in from Stanford for Java.

[ReelLearning]

@JzBosco I'm a big fan of Stanford's 106a class with Mehran Sahami!

[JzBosco]

@ReelLearning Mehran is hilarious and fun to follow along with. The Java class was a blast if for no other reason. Small programs like Karel the Robot from Stanford and Scratch from Harvard surely make CS/Algorithms fun to learn. I'd recommend either or both as a first step- should one be setting out to learn on their own.

For those who don't know- CS106A is an open course project in Java from Standford and can be reached by their page- just do a quick Google search "CS106a"

[JzBosco]

This entire set of videos from ReelLearning is excellent. Thanks

[MiguelOMatic]

Very helpful video. Short, concise, and straight to the point. I wish I had ran into it before spending a couple of hours following outdated instructions elsewhere. Thanks for sharing.

[ReelLearning]

@HenryAlman The code analyzer will not resolve the issue that you specified. I'm unsure why you are receiving the "starting process" error. Do you receive any messages about permissions? You may want to try and create a new workspace (go to File | Switch Workspace | other) and specify another dir that you know you have permission to read/write/execute.You should have a "src" dir that is created at the same level as the "Binary" and "Debug" dir, but this may not be a factor in your issue.

[ReelLearning]

@jbrushes Yeah, there are some issues with the code analyzer in eclipse. I don't recommend the 64 bit version - not yet anyway. Thanks for watching.

[HenryAlman]

@ReelLearning SRC Directory? Sorry, I'm a bit slow! I know that iostream is being included, and that the build is running OK though! :) The HelloWorld.cpp file is immediately there under the project. Should I just keep trying then, if the analyzer should eventually fix it? The message is different now aswell, it says "Launching HelloWorld.o(1) has encountered a problem. Error starting process." In addition, there are "Binary" and "Debug" folders appearing under project. Thanks!