Where to download Eclipse C Compiler?

Smythe · 01-12-2011 11:43am #1

I would like to start learning the C programming language.

If I wanted to download the Eclipse compiler, which I have briefly used on someone else's PC, would anyone be kind enough to show me the link to where I download this?

As I'm starting from scratch, I know nothing about compilers. When I go to their site, I'm faced with lots of downloads, so I'm not sure which is the compiler for compiling in C

http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

Is Eclipse Classic 3.7.1 possibly it? Thanks

01-12-2011 12:12pm

There's no such thing as an Eclipse C Compiler. Eclipse is a development environment, it doesn't include any compilers. You can download a plug-in for Eclipse called CDT that is setup in a particular way so that it's easier to do C in it, but you still need your own compiler.

There's a starter's guide here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse-stlcdt/ - somewhat out of date, but it's a good place to start

Smythe · 01-12-2011 12:16pm

Okay, thanks. I didn't know that.

I'd just been trying some basic c programming on someone else's PC with a program called Eclipse, and I'd been told that type of software is called a compiler.

So had thought I could just download the same Eclipse program they had on their PC.

01-12-2011 12:18pm

Something like this is probably easier to get up and running: http://www.cprogramming.com/code_blocks/

Where to download Eclipse C Compiler?

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