Practical Eclipse CDT: Advanced C/C++ Development, Debugging, and Toolchain Integration

Practical Eclipse CDT: Advanced C/C++ Development, Debugging, and Toolchain Integration is a hands-on, authoritative guide for professional developers and tool integrators who need to harness the full power of Eclipse's C/C++ Development Tooling. Beginning with the platform's foundations—OSGi modularity, plugin lifecycles, project models, advanced source indexing, and resource synchronization—it explains how CDT's internal architecture supports both nimble projects and large, multi-repository codebases. Practical examples and clear explanations make it straightforward to apply these concepts to real-world engineering challenges. The book delivers deep, actionable coverage of advanced editing, refactoring, and automated tooling: optimizing code completion, creating custom templates and linters, automating complex refactorings, and integrating static and dynamic analysis into the developer workflow. It also provides pragmatic guidance on build and toolchain management, from managed and external build systems to cross-compilation and incremental build strategies, and dives into world-class debugging techniques including multi-threaded, distributed, and remote debugging workflows that scale to production-grade systems. Later chapters focus on contemporary engineering needs—unit testing, continuous profiling, and scaling CDT for monolithic and distributed architectures—alongside best practices for DevOps and team collaboration, including version control, CI/CD integration, code review, and agile workflows. Comprehensive sections on plugin development, automation, security hardening, and cloud modernization equip readers with the skills to extend and future-proof their CDT environments, enabling teams to streamline development, improve code quality, and innovate confidently within the Eclipse ecosystem.