title: Using Eclipse C++ CDT in Linux
body: <p>I want to use Eclipse to develop C++ projects on Linux. Particularly I want to modify stable and widely used open source projects using the Eclipse CDT. One of them is Intel Opencv. There are tutorials to create simple c++ projects like here:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse-stlcdt/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse-stlcdt/</a> . </li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I have seen plenty of tutorials for using Eclipse CDT to write programs in
  OpenCv like here:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><a href="http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/Eclipse" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/Eclipse</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://tommy.chheng.com/development/windows_development_setup.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://tommy.chheng.com/development/windows_development_setup.html</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://tommy.chheng.com/index.php/2009/05/opencv-with-eclipse-on-windows/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://tommy.chheng.com/index.php/2009/05/opencv-with-eclipse-on-windows/</a></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>However I
  want to use Eclipse to make changes to the OpenCv platform itself and compile it
  from there. I really like many of Eclipse's features like:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Syntax highlighting</li>
  <li>Outline</li>
  <li>Code assist</li>
  <li>Code templates</li>
  <li>Code history</li>
  <li>etc.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Would someone write a
  small tutorial on how one can make a project in Eclipse from the OpenCv tarball? I would use Eclipse CDT on Linux.</p>
  
  <p>Can Eclipse CDT recognize Makefile as it can do for Ant scripts?</p>