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Asked: 2026-05-14T04:47:47+00:00

I am a student who will be using C++ next quarter. I really enjoyed

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I am a student who will be using C++ next quarter. I really enjoyed using the Galileo release of Eclipse with Java and I would like to continue using Eclipse for for C++ development.

I am now experimenting with C++ development on Eclipse. I am running Eclipse 3.5 SR2 with CDT 6.02. My operating system is Windows 7 and I have installed MinGW-5.1.6. Version 6.3 of GDB is installed.

I have it compiling and stepping through code. However, I have the suspicion that I’m just crawling along and have yet to “shift the car out of first gear”. I’ve spent about a week poking around on the Web to learn what constitutes and “optimal” C++ Eclipse experience. In particular, I’m interested in round-tripping with UML and unit testing.

My exploration of the Web became an archeological dig. I turned up how-to articles from 2003, alternative MinGW distros, references to plugins, dead-links, more references to plugins, passionate discussions on gdb bugs, and more references to plugins.

I no longer have any idea what might constitute an optimal C++ Eclipse environment. Would members of the community like to weigh-in on what they consider to be the current optimal experience for C++ development using Eclipse?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Here is what I ended up with for a C++ development environment on Windows 7.

    • Compiler & libraries
    • Nuwen MinGW Distro.
    • It includes the Boost libraries which are necessary for the unit testing framework.
    • A big thanks to Stephan T. Lavavej for making this distribution available.
  2. Debugger
  3. IDE
  4. Unit testing framework
  5. CUTE (C++ Automated Unit Testing Easier).
  6. Download the Eclipse plug-in using Eclipse’s software installation . Add this URL to “Available Software Sites”: http://ifs.hsr.ch/cute/updatesite.
  7. The CUTE Website has excellent installation and usage instructions.

    8. I failed to find a round-trip modeling tool that was useful to me. Exploring free UML tools was like wandering through a city that had been bombed. Dozens of projects stood in various states of usability. Some projects were clearly active, some were clearly abandoned, but most were somewhere in between. Visio continues to be my pragmatic choice for creating UML models.

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