Cygwin and Eclipse Helios setup

Question

I am trying to learn C++ with Cygwin and Eclipse Helios. I got all the development tools under Cygwin installed; and installed the CDT package for Helios.

The problem is I don't see an option to create a C++ project from makefile or any other option. I can only see options for a C Project, C++ project and a new project from existing source code.

Here is what I referred to:

• Eclipse seminar
• Developing applications using the Eclipse C/C++ Development Toolkit

Questions:

1. Is there any clear guide to setup Eclipse for Cygwin?
2. Am I missing something in the setup?

any other suggestion will be helpful.

Answer 1

Are you asking how to setup GCC in cygwin + Eclipse? How about this tutorial?

Answer 2

I found this tutorial to be a very good source. It was almostperfect, apart that one more path needed to be add to the folder containing cygstdc++-6.dll which prevented anything to be printed on console. So, add to the Project Properties -> C/C++ General -> Paths and Symbols -> Includes GNU C++ the path to the missing dll folder: ${CYGWIN_HOME}/usr/i686-pc-cygwin/sys-root/usr/bin.