Developing in Eclipse

MultiWii may be developed in a variety of different development environments. For those who wish to use Eclipse, there is a set of projects in the Subversion repository to make this easy to set up.

There are many different ways to set up an Eclipse environment to develop for the Arduino platform. This document describes only one.

Needed Software

To set up your Eclipse development environment, you need:

• Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers - http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
  • Subversive Eclipse SVN plugin
  • AVR Eclipse plugin
• WinAVR - http://sourceforge.net/projects/winavr/files

Software Installation

WinAVR

You can use either the standalone WinAVR tool set or the command-line tools that come with the Arduino IDE to develop in Eclipse. The Eclipse plugin finds the standaolone WinAVR automatically, so it's easier to configure. Install it in the default location to make sure the plugin can find it.

• Download WinAVR and install it using the default options

Eclipse

Eclipse comes in many different versions. You want the Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers. For this tutorial, I'm using the Kepler release.

• Download and unzip Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers
• Double-click eclipse.exe to start it