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 other Java providers are supported. You can install Oracle Java 1.8 from Oracle's web site, https://www.java.com/en/, or using a Ubuntu Java Installer PPA, https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/ubuntu/java. The latter will integrate Java with your package management system, so it's ...
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