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Your First C Program in Eclipse

The first thing you have to do is to select the C/C++ perspective. You can do this by clicking the icon pointed to by the red arrow and selecting C/C++.

Your workbench is now configured for C/C++ development.

Next select File, New, C Project from the main menu.

Enter the name of your project, FirstCProject, and for the executable type select Hello World ANSI C Project, and then click on the Finish button.

Notice that you now have a simple Hello World program in the editor window. If you like you may make a small change to the program and save it or you can just leave it as is.

To execute the program select Run As from the Run menu. Then select Local C/C++ Application.

The output of your program is displayed in the Console window at the bottom of the workbench.

Congratulations! You've just run your first C program using Eclipse.