Concise C++ Programming 02 Applications Eclipse C++ IDE Download Compile Run Tutorial

Purpose of this self-study booklet series “Concise C++ Programming 02 Applications” is to present some selected topics of C++ and applications programming tutorials using small length topics (units) suitable to be readable using e-readers such as Amazon.com Kindle Fire.

Using small booklets, we discuss only selected topics in order to provide details of the topic to enhance the understanding. Thus, many illustrative, practical application oriented programming examples are provided for the programmer to read, compile, run, observe the program’s input data/output results, debug, modify, re-compile, re-run and practice until the concepts are clear.

In this booklet, we have presented:
• Downloading Eclipse C++ IDE zip file
• Uncompressing the Eclipse zip file
• Creating Eclipse Icon on the desktop
• Editing a C++ Program using Eclipse
• Compiling and Running from Eclipse IDE (Integrated Development Environment)
• Number of Example programs to illustrate the compiler syntax error messages
• Fixing syntax errors using Eclipse IDE
• Displaying source code line numbers in Eclipse editor window
• Printing source code file including line numbers
• Understanding compiler messages

Web page information for obtaining the freely downloadable Eclipse IDE for GNU C++ compiler software has been provided.

Detailed steps to download, install and configure Eclipse IDE have been given.

Then the detailed instructions for compiling and running a C++ program from Eclipse IDE are given.

We will compile and run a simple C++ program using the following Eclipse IDE activities:

• Create a simple C++ program source file (i.e. a text file) using a Eclipse editor
• Compile the source file into an “.exe” file
• Run the “.exe” file to get the results of the program

Many example programming activities have been given by intentionally creating typo errors (i.e. syntax errors) to illustrate the error messages generated by the compiler.

This tutorial oriented booklet is hoped to help C++ programmers in installing and using Eclipse IDE quickly and start to focus on C++ programming.