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[SOLVED] Eclipse releases - experiences?

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[SOLVED] Eclipse releases - experiences?

#1 Post by turboscrew »

Does anyone have experiences about the "newer" Eclipse/CDT releases?
(With "newer", I mean post Kepler SR2 = Luna, Mars and Neon.)

I've been using Kepler SR2 (32-bit), and it works fairly well, but there has been some hick-ups.
I remember that some releases are very heavy and some releases have quite annoying bugs.
Which one (Kepler/Luna/Mars/Neon) works best on x86_64 Debian 8.1 with CDT?

I'm using Eclipse/CDT for Cross development of bare metal Raspberry Pi programs in C and assembly.
(And maybe some other C/C++/assembly cross-development later.)
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Re: Eclipse releases - experiences?

#2 Post by Cheddie Merai »

turboscrew wrote:Does anyone have experiences about the "newer" Eclipse/CDT releases?
Versions: I've used Mars and Neon (M2 Package) on Debian 9 (Stretch) over the past 2 months for C/C++ programming.

Experience: They both worked well indeed. I now use Neon primarily and have since gotten rid of Mars. I realized a slight improvement in the executing of the program. The application (Eclipse <Neon>) opens quicker too.

Bugs: None for me to date.
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#3 Post by turboscrew »

Loads of thanks.
I think I'll go with Neon too.

[EDIT]
Make that Mars, since it seems to be there in the repos.
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Re: [SOLVED] Eclipse releases - experiences?

#4 Post by turboscrew »

A funny thing...
I installed eclipse from the repos. The version was 3.8.1-7.
All help links go to Mars, so I think I have Mars installed?
What's in the version numbers?
I didn't find the version 3.8.1 on eclipse web site, but I guess it's Juno...

I guess it's manual install...
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Re: Eclipse releases - experiences?

#5 Post by Cheddie Merai »

turboscrew wrote:[EDIT]
Make that Mars, since it seems to be there in the repos.
[/EDIT]
Well, I downloaded it from the eclipse site and installed in /opt. Either way, they're great. I suffer from Shiny stuff syndrome :lol: . https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian ... f_Syndrome
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Re: [SOLVED] Eclipse releases - experiences?

#6 Post by turboscrew »

It seems that I do too - I don't have my old 386sx machine any more. :lol:
Well, I downloaded it from the eclipse site and...
That's what I meant with "manual install".
Except, not with 'make install' but checkinstall.
(Or was it so, that Eclipse doesn't need to be installed - just copied somewhere and run?)
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#7 Post by Cheddie Merai »

turboscrew wrote: (Or was it so, that Eclipse doesn't need to be installed - just copied somewhere and run?)
Yes. Exactly so. Just copy "somewhere," preferably /opt and run. Given that you have/had previous version of Eclipse, you should have packages such as build-essential and gdb already installed. Thats the only two I installed to get it to work.
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Re: [SOLVED] Eclipse releases - experiences?

#8 Post by turboscrew »

Yep. Installed tool chain yesterday, and have been using gdb for about a month now.
Just got tired of jumping back and forth between two machines - a laptop for coding work and the Debian desktop for debugging.
It was just easy to code with the laptop, because I could take the machine with me.

And thanks.
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