Via Eclipse's update manager, install our feature from the following site:
http://web-cat.cs.vt.edu/eclipse/
If you have previously installed an earlier version of our feature, be sure to select and install the latest release.
If you've never used our feature before and want to add it to an existing Eclipse installation, here is how:
Make sure you are using Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo). If you are not, go to the Eclipse downloads site and download Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) for your operating system.
Within Eclipse, go to Help -> Install New Software...
Click the "Add..." button at the top to add a new update site. In the dialog box that appears:
In the "Work with:" field, click the down arrow and choose "Web-CAT Update Site" from the list. (In some cases, it may not appear; if this happens, click "Cancel", then go back to Help -> Install New Software... and check the list again.)
In the list below, expand "Web-CAT/Virginia Tech Computer Science" and check the features that you want to install. (If you want to install the C++ feature, you should already have Eclipse's C/C++ Development Tools installed.)
If you haven't used Eclipse's update features before, here is how:
Within Eclipse, go to Help -> Software Updates -> Find and Install...
Choose "Search for updates of the currently installed features" and click Next.
If any updates for Eclipse are available, you should perform them first. If you find that it takes too long to update Eclipse from the main eclipse.org update site (which is very busy), then feel free to cancel and to download our completely configured bundle instead. After doing this, restart Eclipse and go back to Help -> Software Updates -> Find and Install..., then choose "Search for updates of the currently installed features" again.
Place a check in front of the update for the latest version of our VT CS student feature and follow the rest of the wizard pages to complete the installation.
If these steps do not work for you, then follow the update instructions for first-time users above instead.
After you have installed the latest version of our feature, make sure to complete the following steps:
Go to Window->Preferences.
Expand the Workbench selection in the left pane of the dialog and then click on Perspectives.
Click on "VT CS C/C++" under avaliable perspectives, and then click the "Reset" button. This will ensure that your C/C++ perspective is in sync with the latest version of the feature.
Many general-purpose workbench settings are not included in the feature you can install above. Instead, they are provided here in the form of a zip file: vteclipse-workspace-20090921.zip.
Download this file and unzip it inside your Eclipse workspace directory. If you accepted the default workspace location when you first ran Eclipse, then you can find it in the following location depending on your operating system:
C:\Documents and Settings\[Your user name]\workspace).workspace
directory located in your home directory.
If you chose a different location for your workspace, then unzip this file there.
These workspace settings will overwrite the default settings for many aspects of Eclipse with our custom settings and will also install rule sets that we use for Checkstyle and PMD.
If you are trying to build a shared installation where one copy of Eclipse is used by many machines (say, in a lab setting), be sure to read the Helpful Tips section of the full bundle installation instructions.