A project aimed at enabling C/C++ developers to use the Eclipse cross-vendor tools integration framework held a summit last month, with the aim of setting development priorities. Twenty companies attended the Contributors Summit for the C/C++ Development Tool (CDT), an Eclipse plug-in used in most embedded Linux development toolsuites.

According to the Eclipse Foundation, the CDT Project provides a functional and extensible C and C++ integrated development environment (IDE) for the Eclipse platform. Embedded Linux vendors offering IDEs based on Eclipse (and CDT) include TimeSys, Wind River, MontaVista, LynuxWorks, Sysgo, Enea, and possibly others. Additionally, Eclipse tools are offered by chip companies such as Intel and Texas Instruments, and middleware stack vendors such as Devicescape, to name a few.

Companies attending the summit included Altera, Cisco, ENEA, Ericsson, Etnua, Freescale, IBM, Innoopract, Intel, Los Alamos, Mentor Graphics, Montavista, Nokia, QNX Software Systems, Siemens, Symbian, Texas Instruments, Tensilica, UIUC, and Wind River.

The CDT roadmap

According to QNX Software Systems, which leads the CDT project, attendees agreed to work toward:

• Improving build management and debugging
• Improving performance
  • Implement a new “persisted document object model” (PDOM) indexer
• Make commercial integration easier
  • Implement finer-grained componentization
  • Edit the API documentation so it's more concise

CDT's project leader, Doug Schaefer, stated, “The CDT project is maturing, and the participation of such a wide cross-section of companies is a testament to the importance CDT plays.”

The CDT plugin was last updated in August, with the release of Eclipse CDT 3.0.

 
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