Multiplatform IDE

I recently realized I'm making it unnecessarily hard on myself to use 4 different IDEs, for every combination of (develop on Windows, develop on Linux)x(program runs on ARM, program runs on local x86 PC). Currently, every time I switch between an ARM project and a x86 project (often a console app to pre-calculate lookup tables for the ARM project), I switch between IDEs.

If I already have YAGARTO installed on my Windows PC, what's the best way to set up (another?) Eclipse CDT to compile C++ code natively for my PC?

• Is it better to somehow install 2 copies of Eclipse CDT, one set up to create ARM binaries, the other set up to create x86 binaries? How?
• Is it better to install Eclipse CDT once, then somehow tell it to compile this project into an A开发者_如何学JAVARM binary, and that project into a x86 console app? How?
• Is there some other IDE that understands that different projects run on different CPUs? What?

( Multiplatform C++ cross-compiler talks about building multiple cross-compilers. But I'm missing the next step: Once I have a few cross-compilers built, how do I hook an IDE up to them?)

You can switch toolchain configurations within Eclipse based on targets or projects. There's no need to switch IDEs, it's just a matter of associating toolchains correctly.

• http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.cdt.doc.user%2Freference%2Fcdt_u_prop_build_toolchain.htm

• http://www.frozentux.net/2008/10/switching-gnu-toolchains-in-eclipse-the-easy-way/

• http://eclipsebook.in/c-cpp-development/building-code/build-eclipse-managed/