Key Features
*Details the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE) essential to streamlining your embedded development process
*Overview of the latest C/C++ Developer's Toolkit (CDT)
*Includes case studies of Eclipse use including Monta Vista, LynuxWorks, and Wind River
Description
The Eclipse environment solves the problem of having to maintain your own Integrated Development Environment (IDE), which is time consuming and costly. Embedded tools can also be easily integrated into Eclipse. The C/C++CDT is ideal for the embedded community with more than 70% of embedded developers using this language to write embedded code. Eclipse simplifies embedded system development and then eases its integration into larger platforms and frameworks.
In this book, Doug Abbott examines Eclipse, an IDE, which can be vital in saving money and time in the design and development of an embedded system. Eclipse was created by IBM in 2001 and then became an open-source project in 2004. Since then it has become the de-facto IDE for embedded developers. Virtually all of the major Linux vendors have adopted this platform, including MontVista, LynuxWorks, and Wind River.
Readership
Embedded Linux engineers and designers
Embedded Linux Development Using Eclipse, 1st Edition
Chapter 1 Introducing Eclipse
History
Eclipse Public License
Status of Eclipse
So What is Eclipse Anyway?
What can you do with Eclipse?
Summary
Resources
Chapter 2 Installation
System Requirements
Obtaining Eclipse
Installation
Installing Eclipse under Windows
Embedded Software Development on Windows
Summary
Chapter 3 Getting Started
Start Eclipse
Basic Concepts
Perspectives, editors and views
Menus
Configuring Eclipse
Summary
Chapter 4 C/C++ Developers’ Toolkit (CDT)
Obtaining the Sample Source Code
Creating a New Project
Adding Source Code to the Project
The Program
Building the Project
Debugging the Project
Linking Projects
Refactoring
Summary
Resources
Chapter 5 Eclipse CDT – Digging Deeper
User-supplied Makefiles
Thermostat internals
Debugging multi-threaded programs
Working with embedded target hardware
Summary
Chapter 6 Device Software Development Platform
Adding on to Eclipse
Target Management and the Remote System Explorer (RSE)
Native Application Builder (NAB)
Other DSDP subprojects
Summary
Chapter 7 Plug-in Development Environment (PDE)
Installing the PDE
So what is a plug-in
Our first plug-in
Building and exporting a plug-in
Exploring further
Rich Client Platform (RCP)
Summary
Resources
Chapter 8 Eclipse Advanced Features
UML
CVS
Summary
Resources
Chapter 9 Eclipse-based Development Products
Why buy it?
LynuxWorks – Luminosity
MontaVista – DevRocket
Wind River – Workbench
Summary
Appendix A – The Eclipse Public License
Open Source Initiative OSI - Eclipse Public License v 1.0