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plugin developed using C++ [message #736125]

Thu, 13 October 2011 16:07

dtudino

Messages: 2
Registered: October 2011

Junior Member

Hello,

I'm really new to Eclipse plugin development, and I've got a quick question about it.

I'm potentially working on a project that would involve plugin for Eclipse that would be interfacing with a C++ library. I've noticed that all the documentation and examples I've seen so far for creating plugins are in Java.

Is it possible to create a plugin using C++ instead? It would make interfacing with my external library a lot easier for me. If not, do you have any recommendations on how to proceed with something like this? Would I just need to use the native interface libraries or something? Would it still work, or would there be any weird issues I would need to work around?

Thanks,
david

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Re: plugin developed using C++ [message #737911 is a reply to message #736125]

Sat, 15 October 2011 16:14

John Steele

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Registered: June 2010
Location: Seattle, WA

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The bottom line is you can't build an Eclipse Plug-in using C++. The whole framework is Java-based. Plug-ins are OSGi bundles, which are dynamically loaded into Eclipse's runtime environment (Equinox). It's not possible to change this to C++. You could write the plugin in Java using the PDE, and have the Java code interact with the C++ libraries.

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Re: plugin developed using C++ [message #739402 is a reply to message #737911]

Mon, 17 October 2011 12:43

dtudino

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Registered: October 2011

Junior Member

Hi John,

Thanks for the reply - I suspected it might not be directly doable, but I thought I'd double check.

So if I make some Java interfaces for my C++ libs, I should be good to go, then?

Thanks,
david

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