CppStyle for Windows Eclipse C/C++

If you want to format your code using clang-format in Eclipse IDE in windows do the following:

• Install LLVM from here
• Add LLVM binary directory to the path.
• Add this link https://releases.llvm.org/download.html to the eclipse (help -> install new software)
• Install CppStyle and restart Eclipse. If it occurred any problem, see here

Configure CppStyle

To configure CppStyle globally, go to Preferences -> C/C++ -> CppStyle dialog.

To enable CppStyle(clang-format) as default C/C++ code formatter, go to Preferences -> C/C++ -> Code Style -> Formatter page and switch “Code Formatter” from [built-in] to “CppStyle (clang-format)”

To configure clang-format

CppStyle does not support appending command line parameters to clang-format and cpplint.py. So, use their respective configuration files to do this.

CppStyle will pass the full absolute path of the source file to clang-format in command line. And clang-format will try to find the configuration file named .clang-format in the source file’s path, and its parent’s path if not found previously, and parent’s path of the parent and so on.

So put the configuration file .clang-format into the project’s root direcotry can make it work for all source files in the project.

Further more, you can also add the configuration file .clang-format into Eclipse workspace root directory to make it work for all projects in the workspace.

To generate the clang-format configuration file .clang-format:

clang-format -dump-config -style=Google > .clang-format

If no configure file named .clang-format is found, “-style=Google” will be passed to clang-format and Google style will be used by default.