Last night I needed a C++ IDE right away; I had Eclipse for writing Python and knew that it had a C/C++ extension called CDT.

So I installed this CDT and I also had MingW and Cygwin installed but the only project I could compile was the sample Hello World project.

Whenever I made an empty project, Eclipse responded with “Launch Failed. Binary Not Found.”.

I read a few articles online but no luck and I didn’t want to spend a lot of time on it so I decided to try Netbeans.

After I installed Netbeans, BAM, it detected Cygwin and compiled everything right away!!!

That is what I wanted, I wanted an IDE that I can just make a CPP file and compile without any extra steps and Netbeans did that for me!

I’m not a C++ or Eclipse guru but I’m a normal user who is searching for simplicity and doesn’t have a lot of time to waste on things like this.

Update:

Read the comments bellow for some possible solutions…