Download Eclipse on Mac El Capitan

Navigate to http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ and below is the page.

Then select mirror site to download

After download and double click on the eclipse-cpp-mars-1-macosx-cocoa-x86_64.tar.gz file, and that will decompress the file and then move eclipse into application folder to complete installation.


Tool for writing software reference documentation - Doxigen

More info refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxygen

Download link http://sourceforge.net/projects/doxygen/files/

After download, extract it and keep it in Application folder.

Doxygen is a standalone software by itself, hence next we have to link both software with Eclox.

Setup a bridge to connect both Doxygen with Eclipse - Eclox 

Go to http://home.gna.org/eclox/



Then go to Eclipse Help Menu > Install new software...








Let it download and you will be ask for permission to allow it to install after download. Then restart Eclipse.


Refers to https://code.google.com/p/tonatiuh/wiki/InstallingDoxygenForMac to finish the linking of Doxygen and Eclipse.

• Go to Eclipse->Preferences.
• Go to Doxygen and push "Add..." button.
• Select in the file dialog the doxygen installation path: /Applications/Doxygen/Contents/Resources.
• Apply changes before finish.