Installation.md

Installation

Requirements:

• Eclipse 4.3 (Kepler) or later (http://www.eclipse.org/).
• A 1.7 Java VM or later (http://www.java.com/). Otherwise GoClipse will silently fail to start.
• Go development tools and libraries installed on target machine (http://golang.org/doc/install.html). Currently, only the plan 9 style compilers are supported. GCCGO may be supported in the future

Instructions:

1. Use your existing Eclipse, or download a new Eclipse package from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/.

• For an Eclipse package without any other IDEs or extras (such a VCS tools), download the "Platform Runtime Binary".

1. Start Eclipse, go to Help -> Install New Software...
2. Click the Add... button, then enter the Update Site URL: http://goclipse.github.io/releases/ in the Location field, click OK.
3. Select the recently added update site in the Work with: dropdown. Type GoClipse in the filter box. Now the Goclipse feature should appear below.
4. Select the GoClipse feature, and complete the wizard.

• Dependencies such as CDT will automatically be added during installation.

1. Restart Eclipse. After that take a look at the configuration section in the User Guide.

Updating:

If you already have GoClipse installed, and want to update it to a newer release, click Help -> Check for Updates....