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Download CDT from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads (one of many flavors of eclipse from eclipse.org)
Unzip/ tar -xvf filename in the directory you want to run it from, e.g. ~/bin/
"cd eclipse" (to get to the newly created installation) and run "./eclipse".

EPICS friendly C/C++

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build settings

If you're mostly using this workspace for EPICS work, you can change global default settings by going to Window -> Preferences -> C/C++ -> New C/C++ Project Wizard -> Makefile Project. On the Behaviour tab, delete "all" after "Build (Incremental build)", and change "clean" to "distclean".

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Eclipse has lots of project wizards and other ways of creating a new project. Here are the ones that are most often useful in IOC development:

Use a directory created outside Eclipse (e.g. with eco or git):

A directory where you can run "make" can be brought into Eclipse as a project. You can create a subdirectory of the workspace directory, and run makeBaseApp.pl there, use eco, use something you already have outside the workspace directory, copy or check out a directory... The important thing is the you start with a directory where you can run "make" (e.g. top of IOC or module).

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