From the course: C++ IDE Overview

Installation

From the course: C++ IDE Overview

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Installation

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- [Instructor] Eclipse is a most widely used Java IDE. It is open source, free, and also popular for C++ development. Eclipse is a Java app, so you must have Java installed. It can be either the Java runtime environment, or the Java development kit. Any version 7 or above will work. Let's install Eclipse. Head over to eclipse.org, in the upper right hand corner, click the big orange 'download' button. We are going to download the Eclipse installer. There are a lot of options on this page. Eclipse versions have code names, at the time of this recording the code name for the current version is Eclipse Oxygen. It is on the left hand side of the page in the tool platform section. Click it's orange 'Download 64 bit' button. On the select a mirror page, we can click the orange button to begin the download. But sometimes downloading from a mirror site can be very slow. Instead I'm going to download it from IBM's Bluemix site. Click IBM Bluemix 'Get it' button. Click the 'Download Eclipse' installer link in the middle of the page. Once the download finishes, click it to launch the installer. There are multiple versions of Eclipse tailored to different programming languages. We want the one labeled 'Eclipse for C/C++ Developers'. Click its link. Eclipse installs to your users folder. You can change this location if desired. But I am going to accept the default. Accept the user agreement to continue. Once the installer finishes, it offers us several options. We can launch the IDE, see the 'Read Me' file, open in system explorer. Let's click Launch. Eclipse asks you to select a directory as your workspace. A workspace is where Eclipse stores your projects. You can have several different workspaces if you'd like. I only need one so I'll accept the default. Click Launch. Eclipse is now installed, let's maximize it, and we are ready to start programming in C++.

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