I'm starting to feel stupid. Been using the Arduino IDE for a long time but felt it was time to move on....Not so good.
Down loaded the Sloeber "Package" was a simple .zip not tar. yielded a directory called sloeber. the only real installation instructions were install close to the root drive. I did C:\ . I get nothing but errors 7 FrameworkEvent ERROR's, one..... Invalid preference category path: org.eclipse.mylyn.preferencePages.Mylyn (bundle: org.eclipse.mylyn.context.ui, page: org.eclipse.mylyn.context.ui.preferences) error. also ....Warning: The environment variable HOME is not set......
Three errors I fixed by moving the boards.sloeber.txt and the platform.sloeber.txt files manually.
What the #&$% am I missing? It was suposed to be easy. After three days and uncounted installs feeling like I should give up.
.......help.....please...
I use Eclipse/Sloeber since a long time. Meanwhile I know many traps, but your bad experience is very strange. I cannot help, because I have no idea, why that happens with your computer.
Until W10 I used Windows and fell in the trap to install Sloeber in my working environment a few directory levels below root. The reason for the following errors is the limit of the path length in Windows. But that was the only severe trap I remember.
When W10 came up I changed to Linux.
With Linux I could not flash the boards. I did not know, that you have to extra allow serial communication in Linux. Also there were some time-out problems, e.g. for using Arduino DUE I had to manually update the latest BOSSAC driver from GitHub.
Meanwhile I have many Arduino boards plugged via USB at the same time and I do not use the build in serial monitor of Sloeber but many instances of GtkTerm (started in Eclipse via Run->External Tools). So I can watch the behavior of many boards (in RF communication with each other) sending debug information via serial the same time.
My experience with Eclipse/Sloeber is very good and I am sorry, that I have no idea, why it does not work with your computer.
May be You get help here:
Thanx for the response profrob. It seems to be working now and I really don't know what I did to convince it to work. Now I seem to have to understand the differences between Arduino and Eclipse. Oh yea and I'm working with Teensy 4.x, so another level of "jump right in head first". I can't seem to make the EEPROM.h library work. All other lib's seem to work but EEPROM gives me a "Symbol 'EEPROM' could not be resolved". if I select the include name then request the definition it goes right to it. but wont actually include it.......and yes...I don't know what I'm doing so I can only go up. But I like what I see so far.