Installing eclipse for c/c++

[Gangreen]

ok, this might be a very stupid question, but I have googled, and I'm still stuck with it. I'm working on vista btw.

I downloaded eclipse for C/C++, created a new project, and entered a simple hello world program. Then (like in the java version of eclipse) I clicked the green play button (run).

An error message popped up..Launch failed no binairies...I figured I might not have a compiler installed, so i went to download a file "cdt-master-4.03.zip", and copied all files in it to my eclipse installation folder and ok-ed on overwriting existing files. Still no succes...I went to search some more...I found out something called 'MinGw" was a compiler I needed..So i installed it, and inside eclips in the preferences I set my compiler path to

**installation folder of wingw**/bin/

still no succes.
Any ideas?

I would appreciate if someone posted a step by step guide on how to do this, Because I have tried a lot of things, and I think I might have done something wrong..like overwriting crucial files..Maybe it's better to remove eclipse c/c++ and give it a fresh start.

Thanx

[oler1s]

Just install Visual C++ express. It's your fastest path to getting to C++ right now. If you want to manually setup an IDE and a compiler, you need to put the compiler somewhere, then inform the IDE where the binaries are, where the includes are, and where the libraries are. You may also need to tell it the exact compiler executable or the like.

This is all pretty easy if you are an experienced C++ programmer, but it's a bit confusing for beginner.

[Gangreen]

I could do that, but is it suitable too for normal C, not C++?

I'm an experienced programmer in java, but not in C, so maybe if you could give me a bit more info on where to get the compiler, and where in eclipse I schould put the includes I can get it to work ;)

[weaknessforcats]

So exactly how are you compiling your program?

[Banfa]

So exactly how are you compiling your program?

Presumably they aren't yet :D

@Gangreen MSVC will happily compile C programs the Microsoft Compiler that comes with it compiles both C and C++ source, normally based on the file extension although there are compiler switches to force it one way or the other.

However if you really want to go ahead with trying to install Eclipse (I have to say I hated it) and MingW then try looking here or try Google which is how I found that.