Eclipse openFrameworks Plugin setup problems

beginners
#1

Hello, absolute newbie on openFrameworks here.

I followed the official linux tutorial (http://openframeworks.cc/setup/linux-eclipse/) over five times in a row on this sunday, but always stumbled on the same problem, which is Eclipse failing recognizing the actual openFrameworks library path.

The best I could gather from the error warning by Eclipse is that it’s a java.lang.NullPointer exception, but nothing more specific.

I’m using an Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit system and the Eclipse Neon 64-bit version with the openFrameworks 0.9.8 release.

That’s all I got. Still pretty excited to build art with oF, so I take this first starting hurdle as a lesson and reminder to remain humble. =)

Thanks in advance!

#2

do you have spaces in any of the directories in the path? if i remember well eclipse or the plugin had problems with that

#3

Besides the directory names themselves which do not possess any spaces in between on around them, I double checked to be sure before responding. Copied and pasted across editors and found no additional spaces.

Should I try with older Eclipse version or the QT listed on the Linux section?

#4

Yes there might be a newer version of eclipse and the plugin might not be compatible with it. The best maintained version for linux is QT

#5

All right, installed it then. Following your video, it went on without a hitch. Thank you very much!