Installation guide

Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2015 Composer Edition for C++ Linux*
Installation Guide and Release Notes 29
5.3 How to Obtain and Install Eclipse, CDT and a JRE
Eclipse is a Java application and therefore requires a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) to
execute. The choice of a JRE is dependent on your operating environment (machine
architecture, operating system, etc.) and there are many JRE's available to choose from.
A package containing both Eclipse 4.3 and CDT 8.2 is available from:
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
Scroll down to find “Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers”. Choose either the Linux 32-bit or Linux
64-bit download as desired. Refer to the links on the right for older versions.
5.3.1 Installing JRE, Eclipse and CDT
Once you have downloaded the appropriate files for Eclipse, CDT, and a JRE, you can install
them as follows:
1. Install your chosen JRE according to the JRE provider's instructions.
2. Create a directory where you would like to install Eclipse and cd to this directory. This
directory will be referred to as <eclipse-install-dir>
3. Copy the Eclipse package binary .tgz file to the <eclipse-install-dir> directory.
4. Expand the .tgz file.
5. Start eclipse
You are now ready to add the Intel C++ product extension to your Eclipse configuration as
described in the section, How to Install the Intel C++ Eclipse Product Extension in Your Eclipse
Platform. If you need help with launching Eclipse for the first time, please read the next section.
5.4 Launching Eclipse for Development with the Intel C++ Compiler
Since Eclipse requires a JRE to execute, you must ensure that an appropriate JRE is available
to Eclipse prior to its invocation. You can set the PATH environment variable to the full path of
the folder of the java file from the JRE installed on your system or reference the full path of the
java executable from the JRE installed on your system in the -vm parameter of the Eclipse
command, e.g.:
eclipse -vm /JRE folder/bin/java
Invoke the Eclipse executable directly from the directory where it has been installed. For
example:
<eclipse-install-dir>/eclipse/eclipse
5.5 Installing on Fedora* Systems
If the Intel C++ Compiler for Linux is installed on an IA-32 or Intel® 64 architecture Fedora*
system as a "local" installation, i.e. not installed as root, the installation may fail to properly
execute the Eclipse graphical user interfaces to the compiler or debugger. The failure
mechanism will typically be displayed as a JVM Terminated error. The error condition can