The standard Eclipse CDT IDE (for C/C++) needs integration with the GNU toolchain, before you can start making your C/C++ projects in Eclipse (the world's best Open-source IDE, Integrated Development Environment). This includes GNU's make, gcc compiler, and gdb debugger utilities. For windows, MinGW and Cygwin are the two main platform choices for acquiring the toolchain. It is important to note the difference between them. Cygwin produces executables that use the Cygwin POSIX runtime. MinGW produces native Windows executables that do not require a separate runtime.In this tutorial I'll show you how to setup Eclipse CDT using MinGW toolchain in a Windows Platform.
