In eclipse, click Help | Software Updates.The link takes you straight to a wiki and, if you follow the link for downloading, you will find instructions on how to grab the plugin directly from eclipse. To see fundamental errors that early in your experience with a product is never encouraging. I was a bit disappointed in the welcome splash screen since the text by the links didn’t render properly.
At this stage, you could have a little play with the options. I renamed this one to distinguish it form another, workspace folder on my machine. Several workspaces can be created and you can switch between them at will. By default, it will ask you where to put the workspace. Otherwise, double clicking will launched Eclipse. It can be dragged to the dock if you want rapid access to it. In there is an application icon for eclipse. I dragged this straight into the Applications folder on my iMac. The tarball contains a single folder called eclipse. In the Servo articles, Dennis Clark refers to the ‘Europa’ release which seems to install slightly differently. A suitable tarball can be had fromĪt the time of writing, the current release is ‘Ganymede’ – version 3.4.2. Next I had to get, and install a copy of Eclipse. It neatly puts everything your need – the compiler, avrdude and so on – into the folder /usr/local for you. The AVRMacPack installation, I already had on the machine. One of my recurring mistakes is the feeling that you can’t have enough development tools so I gave it a go… While trawling through back issues of SERVO magazine, I came across a pair of articles by Dennis Clarke about setting up Eclipse with AVRMacPack and the avr-eclipse plugin. AVRMacPack works well enough in Xcode but I don’t understand Xcode so I wen looking for an alternative.