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Over the last year I've been working on-and-off with one of the Eclipse CDT developers, Andrew Gvozdev, to resolve the issues preventing Eclipse from being really useful for Mozilla C++ development. I'm pleased to say that, mainly as a result of Andrew's hard work, the latest release candidate of the next version of Eclipse is now much easier to set up with Mozilla, and it's now possible to get the code assistance features working a whole lot better (and without jumping through the ugly, unreliable hoops that were previously required). I'm personally finding the ability to quickly find all the callers of a method, dig up/down through call hierarchies, find all overrides, browse inheritance trees, refactor, etc. to be hugely beneficial in my C++ development work. If you're a Mozilla C++ dev you should give it a try, and hopefully it will similarly boosts your productivity and ability to grok unfamiliar parts of the source.
Oh, and yes, Bas, it does understand nsCOMPtr. ;-)
Rather than provide setup instructions here on my blog, I've completely rewritten the old Eclipse page on MDC and replaced it with an Eclipse CDT wiki page. If you're interested, head over there and find out how to get started. If you have any issues with or questions about that documentation, feel free to comment below, or to email me or catch me on IRC.
I want to say a big thank you to Andrew Gvozdev. It's Andrew's SD90 project to completely rewrite Eclipse CDT's old and badly broken build output parser that finally got Eclipse's code assistance working well with Mozilla. Andrew was very quick to fix bugs and integrate feedback over the last year, despite probably secretly wishing at times that I'd give his Inbox a rest. Thanks, Andrew, you rock!! :-)
Oh, and if you find any bugs or rough edges in Eclipse CDT, I'm sure Andrew and the other CDT folks would love you to file CDT bug reports (CC me if you do).
Tags: Mozilla, Eclipse, C++