Installing IDE plug-ins for iCube Engineer Toolchain

In high-level language programming, the common workbench is equipped with a specialized tool for smooth and quick workflows. Well known Integrated Development Environment (IDE) tools are Visual Studio® (available for Windows®) or Eclipse® (available for Windows® and Linux®).

As part of the iCube Engineer toolchain, Yaskawa offers an Eclipse® add-in and a Visual Studio® extension. They extend the respective IDE and its graphical user interface (GUI) to support the development process for iCube Engineer applications.

Visual Studio® extension for iCube Engineer

Before starting the installation, ensure that the system requirements are met.

For C# and C++ development Yaskawa officially supports:

• Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2022 (all editions, minimal version 17.6.2)

These workloads need to be included:

• .Net™
• Desktop development with C++
• Linux® development with C++

During iCube Engineer Toolchain installation, a compatible Visual Studio® extension version was installed:

Adding the Visual Studio® extension

• Start Visual Studio® and check the installed extensions:
  Extensions menu → Manage Extensions → in the left panel click Installed:
  
  
  ↪ The Visual Studio® extensions are ready for C++ and C# programming and debugging.

Eclipse® add-in forPLCnext Technology

Before starting the installation, ensure that the system requirements are met.

For C++ development Yaskawa officially supports:

• Eclipse® IDE for C/C++ Developer
  You can get Eclipse® from eclipse.org.

In case of any issues with Eclipse:

• The Java™ Runtime Environment is required for the Eclipse® IDE.
• If an error with "error code 13" occurs when Java™ is started, check if the correct Java™ version is installed. If you want to use a 64-bit Eclipse® version, you have to use a 64-bit Java™ version, too.

Adding the Eclipse® add-in

How to install

If an earlier Eclipse® add-in version is already installed, uninstall it:

• Open the Help > About Eclipse IDE menu:
  
  
  
  
• Click on the Installation Details button.
  
  
  
  
• Select the earlier add-in versions and uninstall them.

Install the add-in:

• Start Eclipse® and open the Help → Install New Software... menu.
  
  
  
  
• In the Install dialog click on Add... to select the path to the directory of the add-in.
• In the Add Repository dialog, click on Archive and select the archive of the add-in. You will find it in the installation folder of the iCube Engineer Toolchain under .../ide-plugins/com.yaskawa.ice.toolchain.zip.
• Enter a name of your choice in the Name: input field and confirm with clicking the Add button of the pop-up dialog: