Eclipse is an open source IDE that is written mostly in Java and released under the Eclipse Public License (EPL). It can be extended using plugins and the Yocto Project releases a Yocto plugin that allows to use Eclipse for Yocto application development.
Using the Eclipse IDE
Getting ready
Yocto 2.4 provides Eclipse Yocto plugins for three different Eclipse versions: Mars, Neon and Oxygen. They can be downloaded at http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-2.4/eclipse-plugin/. We will use Oxygen, but the instructions are compatible with all versions. We will start with the Eclipse IDE for C/C++ developers and install all the required plugins we need.
It is recommended to run Eclipse under Oracle Java 1.8, although...