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Tips: Taking C++ on its Maiden Voyage

By Dwight Deugo

November 7, 2007 — (Page 1 of 2)
Last time I explained how to get up and running with the CDT, the C/C++ Development Tooling project. I covered how to install the tools along with a gcc compiler, a required component for building your C++ applications. This week, I'll look at some of the CDT's interesting features.

Starting Eclipse with the CDT is no different than with any other plugin. If opening for the first time, Eclipse will show you the welcome screen and put you into the C/C++ perspective by default, as shown in Figure 1.

If you're used to the Java perspective, you'll notice a difference in the Make Targets View, which enables you to select the make targets you want to build in your workspace. Another difference is the Project Explorer view, which provides a hierarchical view of the resources in the Workbench. From this view, you create your C/C++ project and files for editing or select resources for operations such as exporting.

Starting with the Project Explorer and the corresponding File->New menu, you're presented with the list of options as shown in Figure 2.

As always, you can create general projects, folders and files. As the figure shows, you can also create the corresponding items related to C/C++ development such as header, source and class files. Selecting the C++ option and hitting the Next button brings the wizard to a page where you can create C++ projects containing entities such as executables, shared libraries, static libraries and makefiles, as shown in Figure 3.

Here is the first place that you can also check to see if your installation of a gcc compiler was successful. In my case, I installed one for the Mac OS. If you installed more than one compiler, you can select which one your project should use from this page in the wizard.

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