Player/Stage on Eclipse

Today I've found myself trying to set up Eclipse as my IDE for Player/Stage after moving some files and somehow deleting all the settings. I'm using an Eclipse specifically for C/C++ development, which you can get here: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

This is how I set it up for Player/Stage:


Open up Eclipse and select Project (from the top menubar) then Properties. Select the C/C++ Build >> settings from the left sidebar. Tool Settings should be the default tab that is open.
You should now have a window that looks like this (click to enbiggen):



Under the GCC C++ Compiler select the Miscellaneous tab and paste into the "other flags" box:
`pkg-config --cflags playerc++`




Similarly, under the GCC C Compiler select the Miscellaneous tab and paste into the "other flags" box:
`pkg-config --cflags playerc`

To set up the linker (which is what connects the object files together into a working binary which can then be executed) select the Miscellaneous tab under the GCC C++ Linker and into the Linker flags box paste:
`pkg-config --libs playerc++`

If you want to develop in C rather than C++ then paste `pkg-config --libs playerc` into the box instead.



It will probably work now if you have the PATH set on your computer properly. It didn't work for me so I told Eclipse where to look for all the Player libraries. Under the GCC C++ Compiler select the directories tab and paste the location of the folder containing the player headers. On my computer this was /usr/local/include/player-3.0/libplayerc++ it will probably be different on different computers. Do the same for the directories tab in the GCC C Compiler section.



Congratulations. You can now start working on some Player/Stage code in Eclipse! If you need to test your code it is still necessary to start a Stage simulation by opening a terminal and running $ player yourcfg.cfg. Then when you hit run in eclipse it'll compile and then start running your code on that simulation.