[Daxo]

Hi guyz,

not sure is this the right spot to ask help on this specific topic, if it isn't please feel free to move it to more appropriate place. Appreciated.


Since I'm finishing up my mechanical projects to take some time off it, been working on various mechanical projects for few years now and I could use some none related direction.


I guess, my question would be, what is the latest eclipse installation these days?

like, a link to the download mirror and some tips regarding the essential MinGW install etc..


Few years back I took a bit of fun project to learn C++ syntax after which I just took a look at the Arduino project and its IDE, needless to say that understanding stuff like classes and functions gived me a head start of understanding the available program examples.

Fun project then, now, I've decided to go more into depth of programming and electronics from basics up and I would really appreciate all the help I could get.

Kind regards,
Dragomir

[f5soh]

Hi,

First you need to setup a dev environment, take a look here:
https://librepilot.atlassian.net/wiki/display/LPDOC/Windows+Building+and+Packaging

For Eclipse setup i cannot help, i never used Eclipse and i simply use a regular text editor.


Topic moved to Dev board.

[Daxo]

Hi Laurent,

Thanks for helping out, will be reading that part soon.


First I'm going to take 30 days to recall the C++ stuff from basics up.


In the mean time, I've found this great Video which is a good starting point to get the eclipse up and running.

Just in case someone else is looking for this info as well.

Eclipse - Mars.2


Installation Video Guidance:



I've made a list of the links I've visited in order to set it all up.

Java JDK Download
  http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html


Fortran C/C++ for windows
  http://www.equation.com/servlet/equation.cmd?fa=fortran


Eclipse IDE C/C++ download
   https://eclipse.org/downloads/


After following all the steps, when i tried to select MinGW tool chain in Eclipse preferences it wasn't even listed there so I went to the SourceForge and download and installed it in the same directory ( C:\MinGW).

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/

Now when I tried it again in the preferences - C/C++ the MinGW was listed under tool chain, Sweet!


Hope it helps.