Using Eclipse for C/C++ development

Posted 28/11/2008 & filed under Software Engineering.

While I was using up some spare cycles a while ago, I wrote a simple RSS parser in C, using libcurl but rather than start up the PC and use VisualStudio, I decided to use Eclipse Ganymede instead. The documentation was almost non existent so it took a while to set up the C project but in the end it was fairly easy. Just create a new C/C++ project and add the curl path to Properties -> C/C++ Build -> Settings:

Then add the curl paths in Properties -> C/C++ General -> Paths and Symbols:

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