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Re: Eclipse Development

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Originally Posted by Nitinol View Post
Eclipse is unnecessarily resource hungry, a common drawback to software written in Java.
I've found that Eclipse, while it does take a while to load, runs well on any system from 2000 or newer. (Milage May Vary.) Just make sure you have a decent amount of RAM. (I doubt 128MB will cut it.)

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Although Eclipse itself is available for multiple platforms, getting mcc18 to work on Linux is problematic as it relies on Wine, though that is a problem that can be overcome.
On distributions with a package manager, it's generally as easy as installing wine, grabbing the wrapper scripts, and sticking them in /bin.

There are multiple makefiles around. I use one that updates itself (uses make's variables instead of hard-coded file names). There is a script that will generate one for you. You can also use Eclipse's Managed Make to do it. (Make sure you have the mcc18 toolchain plugin installed.)

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There is an issue running mcc18 on 64 bit processors.
From the sound of it, there are only issues when you use a 64-bit operating system on top of a 64-bit processor. The 64-bit version of Windows XP is not widely used, IIRC. There are 64-bit Linux distros, but they are still somewhat unstable.