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Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focus on building an extensible development platform, runtime and application frameworks for building, deploying and managing software across the entire software life cycle.

Here you will find instructions to install the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment for C/C++ Developers and to configure it for the development of Tonatiuh.

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Installing the Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers

Download the latest version of the_"Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers"_ from the Eclipse website. To do it, click on the following link to go to the "Downloads" webpage of the Eclipse website. Once you reach the webpage, click on the appropriate version (Windows 32 Bit or Windows 64 Bit) of the link titled "Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers" (see Figure 1). Then follow the instructions to select a mirror site from where to download the compressed package file. When prompted, select the appropriate option to store the file in your computer. Currently, the latest version of the compressed package file is titled"eclipse-cpp-indigo-incubation-win32.zip".

Once the IDE for C/C++ Developers compressed package file is in your computer, right-click upon it to extract its content. Move or copy the "eclipse" folder into the folder "C:\sde"

Now, go to the folder "C:\sde\eclipse" and run the program "eclipse.exe". When asked for a workspace, set it to "C:\sde\workspace".

Configuring the Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers for developing Qt applications

On the Eclipse main menu select "Window" and within it "Preferences". This will triger a pop-up dialog titled Preferences", which can be used to adjust different Eclipse options. In the left tree-like view of the preferences dialog select "General\Editors\File Associations" (see Figure 1). In the dialog's "File Associations" right view, within the "File types" window, add the new types:

• .ui

And within the "Associated editors" window, associate this file types with the following programs, respectively:

• C:\sde\qt\qtbase\bin\designer.exe

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Figure 1. View of the Eclipse IDE and the "Preferences\File Associations" dialog.

Configuring the Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers for using the MinGW compiler

On the Eclipse main menu select "Window" and within it "Preferences" to display the pop-up dialog Preferences". In the left tree-like view of the preferences dialog select "C/C++\New CDT Project Wizar\Makefile Project" (see Figure 2). In the dialog's "Makefile Project" right view, do the following:

• Under the "Binary Parsers" tab, select only "PE Windows Parser"
• Under the "Builder Settings" tab, uncheck the "Use default build command" and set the build command to "C:\sde\mingw64\bin\mingw32-make.exe"

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Figure 2. View of the Eclipse IDE and the "Preferences\Makefile Project" dialog.

To install svn to download and update Tonatiuh follow the corresponding installation procedures Installing Subversive.

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