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  <title>Introduction</title>
  <para>There are several freely available C and C++ development environments.
  Most of them have the disadvantage that they require one particular
  operating system. The Eclipse IDE was written as a cross-platform
  development environment. Initially just written for Java, it also has a very
  good C/C++ development mode.</para>
  <para>If you have already tried (and I assume failed, otherwise you wouldn't
  be reading this document) to install Eclipse CDT, you may want to go
  directly to <xref linkend="problems"/>.</para>
  <para>This document describes how to install everything necessary to develop
  with C or C++ using only free tools on the three major operating systems
  Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. It uses the Eclipse IDE, which is the same on
  all operating systems, thus providing a consistent user experience once
  installed.</para>
  <para>There are two versions of this document:</para>
  <variablelist>
    <varlistentry>
      <term>The free online version</term>
      <listitem>
        <para>The <link xlink:href="http://max.berger.name/howto/cdt">free
        version of Setting up Eclipse CDT on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS
        X</link> can be found on <link xlink:href="http://max.berger.name/">Max Bergers website</link>. It
        will always be the previous major revision of the document.</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
      <term>A paid eBook version</term>
      <listitem>
        <para>The eBook version of Setting up Eclipse CDT on Windows,
        Linux/Unix, Mac OS X is distributed through Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk,
        and Amazon.de. It will always be the current major revision of the
        document.</para>
        <itemizedlist>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              <link xlink:href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005NWQCJS/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=maxbergername-20">Setting
            up Eclipse CDT on Window, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X on
            Amazon.com</link>
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              <link xlink:href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005NWQCJS/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=httpmaxberg02-21">Setting
            up Eclipse CDT on Window, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X on
            Amazon.co.uk</link>
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              <link xlink:href="http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B005NWQCJS/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=httpmaxberger-21">Setting
            up Eclipse CDT on Window, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X on
            Amazon.de</link>
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              <link xlink:href="http://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B005NWQCJS/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=httpmaxberg06-21">Setting
            up Eclipse CDT on Window, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X on
            Amazon.fr</link>
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              <link xlink:href="http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B005NWQCJS/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=httpmaxberg08-21">Setting
            up Eclipse CDT on Window, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X on
            Amazon.it</link>
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              <link xlink:href="http://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B005NWQCJS/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=maxbergername-21">Setting
            up Eclipse CDT on Window, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X on
            Amazon.es</link>
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
  </variablelist>
  <para>At this time, the eBook version contains updates for the following
  items which are not yet in the free version:</para>
  <itemizedlist>
    <listitem>
      <para>There are no updates in the ebook version at this time.</para>
    </listitem>
  </itemizedlist>
  <para>Screenshots may still reflect older versions of the used software,
  they are only updated if there is a significant change.</para>
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