Eclipse Guide for Nachos Java

You can use any IDE for Nachos. Eclipse is a good tool, but it requires some setup. Here are some tips that have been collected; please send any tips you have.

Paths

Nachos has a directory/package structure that Eclipse doesn't like very much, so you have to be careful when creating the project so that Eclipse can find each package. (Otherwise it might see "threads" instead of "nachos.threads".) You should create the project in the parent directory of your Nachos source tree, i.e. the directory containing the directory "nachos".

One way to do this is:

• Create a new empty directory (e.g. cs162)
• Unpack nachos in this directory, so that you have cs162/nachos
• In Eclipse, "Create project at external location" and enter the parent directory of nachos (in this example, cs162).

Running

The main class to run is nachos.machine.Machine.