Starting Eclipse

If Eclipse and the CDT are installed on your system, follow these steps to initialized the compiler environment and start Eclipse:


  1. Set the necessary environment variables by executing source install-dir/bin/compilervars.sh architecture. (or compilervars.csh).

    The script takes an argument specifying architecture:

    • ia32: Compiler and libraries for IA-32 architectures only

    • intel64: Compiler and libraries for Intel® 64 architectures only

  2. Be sure the LANG environment variable is set correctly:
    export LANG=en_US

  3. Start Eclipse, indicating the Java* runtime environment. For example:


    eclipse-install-dir/eclipse/eclipse -vm java-install-dir/jre1.6.0_20/bin/java -vmargs -Xmx256m

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