Eclipse IDE is a platform-independent development environment. However, you'll need a number of other tools that are not platform independent. You'll need GPUTILS and SDCC to compile for the PIC micro-controller. Please fallback to following guides depending on your platform to get the necessary installation informations:

• Windows : Windows Toolchain Quickstart

• Mac OS X : Installing GPUTILS and SDCC on OSX

• Linux : Installing GPUTILS and SDCC on Gentoo Linux

Along with GPUTILS and SDCC we will install Eclipse IDE and the Eclipse C/C++ Development Tools (aka CDT). Finaly, we will install the EclipseSDCC plugin that integrates the open source Small Device C Compiler (SDCC) within the Eclipse/CDT.

WARNING Please note that EclipseSDCC is only compatible to Eclipse 3.1 yet. This means that you'll need a dedicated fresh 3.1 version in case you have a 3.3 for other uses. This page will be updated when a new version of the EclipseSDCC plugin will be available.

• Download the correct Eclipse "Platform Runtime Binary" for your platform (lots of platforms are available)
• Unzip it in the appropriate directory.
• Launch Eclipse
• Select the directory where your projects will be hosted
• Open the Update Manager (Help > Software Updates > Find and Install…)
• Select “Search for new features to install” and press “Next”
• Click “New Remote Site…” and enter the “http://download.eclipse.org/tools/cdt/releases/eclipse3.1/” as the update site URL.
• Press “Finish”
• Select the CDT update site miror
• Check the “Eclipse C/C++ Development Tools” node and press “Next” (the “SDK” feature is for those who wants to extend CDT…)
• Accept the term in the licence agreements
• Optionaly change the CDT location (or leave it in your eclipse distro) and press “Finish”

• Quit Eclipse
• Download the correct EclipseSDCC binary for your platform
• Extract the archive in a temp directory

tar xvzf net.sourceforge.eclipsesdcc-1.0.0-linux.gtk.x86.tar.gz

• Copy contents of the features/ directory to the features/ directory of your eclipse install and do the same for plugins.

cd net.sourceforge.eclipsesdcc-1.0.0-linux.gtk.x86/
cp -R features/* /opt/eclipse-3.1.2/features/
cp -R plugins/* /opt/eclipse-3.1.2/plugins/

• Relaunch Eclipse

Now we are done with installation. We now have to configure Eclipse properly.