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Eclipse not showing mingw in Debian/Ubuntu [message #1796632]

Tue, 16 October 2018 17:18

Scotty Smith

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Registered: October 2018

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Hello,
I'm a complete eclipse-newbie and try to set-up a live-usb-stick with linux and eclipse for a computer-science-project at university. The thing is that we have to use mingw for cross-compiling.

I tried several linux-distros: Only ubuntu/debian seem to offer mingw in their repositories. However , eclipse never is able to find mingw, after installation. I soon found out (on the internet) that older version of eclipse have a bug with finding installed toolchains. The eclipse-version in debian-repos is very old (version 3.8). So I downloaded the newest eclipse from the homepage (version 2018-09) but mingw still is not available when choosing file > new project > C/C++-project > C-managed build.

The strange thing is: Mingw is listed in Window > Preferencec > C/C++ > Core Build Toolchains.

So why can't I use mingw even though eclipse did find the toolchain?
gcc is placed in/usr/bin and of course this path is listed in the global PATH-variable.

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Re: Eclipse not showing mingw in Debian/Ubuntu [message #1796643 is a reply to message #1796632]

Tue, 16 October 2018 19:53

Francesco Pugliese

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Registered: October 2018

Junior Member

Thanks i resolved !

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Re: Eclipse not showing mingw in Debian/Ubuntu [message #1796648 is a reply to message #1796643]

Tue, 16 October 2018 21:15

Scotty Smith

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Registered: October 2018

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???

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Re: Eclipse not showing mingw in Debian/Ubuntu [message #1796796 is a reply to message #1796648]

Fri, 19 October 2018 05:06

Marc-André Laperle

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Registered: July 2009

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Hi. I believe the MinGW toolchain is geared towards Windows as host. You could try instead to use the "Cross GCC" toolchain. It allows you to specify the path and the prefix of gcc. Check in "Install new software", it should be listed under the name "C/C++ GCC Cross Compiler Support". Once you created your project with that toolchain, double check your project properties > C/C++ Build > Settings > Cross Settings. For example, if you compiler is at location /usr/bin/mingw-gcc, the prefix is "mingw-" and path is /usr/bin/.

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