CDT Overview

The C/C++ Development Toolkit (CDT) is a set of Eclipse plug-ins that provide C and C++ extensions to the Eclipse workbench. For more information about Eclipse, see Workbench User Guide > Concepts > Workbench.

The CDT provides a C/C++ IDE that simplifies many of the same tools that you can use from the command line. The CDT can also communicate with many external utilities and interpret their responses, such as:

• Build (such as make).
• Compile (such as gcc). For more information, see http://gcc.gnu.org.
• Debug (such as gdb). For more information, see http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/.

The CDT opens as the C/C++ perspective of the Eclipse workbench. The C/C++ perspective consists of an editor and the following views:

C/C++ Projects view

Lists all of your C/C++ projects.

Navigator view

Lists all files in your Eclipse workspace.

Tasks view

Lists things such as tasks, compiler warnings, and errors.

C-Build view

Displays the output from make.

Properties view

Lists the properties of a file that has been selected in the C/C++ Projects view or the Navigator view.

Outline view

Lists file elements.

For more information, see Workbench User Guide > Concepts > Perspectives.

CDT updates

The Install/Update perspective provides information about your current Eclipse installation and provides the framework to manage your updates. For more information, see Workbench User Guide > Tasks > Updating features with the update manager.

To view a list of the updates available for the toolsets that you installed, click Help > Software Updates > New Updates.

Additional information

For more information on the Eclipse CDT project, refer to http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/:

• CDT newsgroup: The place to ask questions about how to use the CDT.
• User FAQ: Provides answers to the most common questions about using the CDT.
• Developer Documentation: Provides feature and design specifications for building and extending the CDT.
• CDT Community Webpage: Showcases plugins and tools developed by and for the CDT Community. If you have tools or plugins that you would like to submit to the CDT Community Page, use the CDT Development Mailing List or the Eclipse Tools CDT newsgroup.

License

The CDT is an open source project and is licensed under the Common Public License.

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