Building a distribution of Eclipse CDT with all the tools and libraries necessary to build Windows desktop applications.

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What's New

  • Apr 30, 2009 - It's been a while, but I'm still on target to get Wascana 1.0 out in the summer time. I just put the finishing touches on the p2 actions to install from tar files. It'll be available in the Eclipse C/C++ IDE which will be the base for Wascana. I will also be working on packaging Qt for it as well now that it's LGPL. Sign up for the Open Discussions forum for announcements as we get closer
  • Dec 17, 2008 - Working on Wascana 1.0 as we speak. I am building a p2 repository for all of the components, including toolchains and libraries. Instructions are over here in my blog. The toolchains are there now and I am building up the library set and adding them as I go. If you decide to try it out, check back regularly for updates. And let me know through the forum if you run into any issues
  • Aug 29, 2008 - Very quiet here, eh? Right now, yes. It's been a busy summer so I haven't had time to work on Wascana 1.0. I'm also still waiting for an official MinGW gcc 4.3.1 release. I'm not sure where that is. The MSVC debugging isn't near ready as I hoped it would be either, so that likely won't be in Wascana 1.0. Everything else is pretty much a go. I'm very excited about building the p2 installer to show the world how to use this great new technology from Eclipse can be used as a general IDE installer
  • Sept 3, 2007 - Wascana Desktop Developer, MinGW Edition 0.9.3 is released. It contains a new look to the Eclipse install. It also features the addition of the wxWidgets library. The MinGW toolchain remains at gcc 3.4.5. The boost library did not make this release but should make the next one. Click on the Downloads link to get yours.

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What's in it

The Wascana, CDT Windows Edition is currently composed of the following components. More will likely be added later.

  • Sun's redistributable Java Runtime Environment
  • Eclipse Platform runtime
  • Eclipse CDT runtime
  • MinGW toolchain: binutils, gcc, g++, gdb
  • MinGW runtime libraries: mingw-runtime, w32api
  • MSYS GNU command line environment
  • wxWidgets application framework library
  • Simple Directmedia Layer library, better known as SDL