I installed the "Eclipse IDE - LUNA - ADT Bundle" package from the Eclipse website. I work with C++ projects as well, so I used the "Install New Software..." menu option to install the "C/C++ Development Tools" package. After doing so and restarting Eclipse, the C++ perspective did not appear; clicking on the "Open Perspective" button did not show the "C/C++" option. I also found that I was unable to create a C++ project; the "C/C++" tree node did not appear in the New Project wizard. The Java perspective and new project options were available.
I verified that CDT was installed by going to the "Installed Installation Details" dialog - "C/C++ Development Tools" appeared in the "Installed Software" list. I tried uninstalling this package and reinstalled it again without success. I tried removing the Eclipse installation altogether and installing the "Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers". There were no C/C++ options in this installation either.
What I am doubting is that the Java installed on my Macbook i- mavericks is 6.0, whereas I can see the latest version is 7 or 8. Another problem is that I cannot update to 7 or 8 because of the following problem in OSX -
https://www.java.com/en/download/faq/java_mac.xml
Oracle's Java version 7u25 and below have been disabled by Apple on OS X. Updating to the latest release will allow Java to be run on Mac OS X.
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I verified that CDT was installed by going to the "Installed Installation Details" dialog - "C/C++ Development Tools" appeared in the "Installed Software" list. I tried uninstalling this package and reinstalled it again without success. I tried removing the Eclipse installation altogether and installing the "Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers". There were no C/C++ options in this installation either.
What I am doubting is that the Java installed on my Macbook i- mavericks is 6.0, whereas I can see the latest version is 7 or 8. Another problem is that I cannot update to 7 or 8 because of the following problem in OSX -
https://www.java.com/en/download/faq/java_mac.xml
Oracle's Java version 7u25 and below have been disabled by Apple on OS X. Updating to the latest release will allow Java to be run on Mac OS X.
» Download latest Java