Installing the Ceylon IDE

The M1 "Newton" release of the Ceylon IDE is available from our Eclipse plugin update site. Note that the version of the Ceylon compiler embedded in this M1 release is compatible with the Ceylon M1 "Newton" command-line tools.

Please report any issue in our issue tracker.

Installing from the update site

Here's what you need to do to install the IDE:

  1. Start with a clean install of Eclipse 3.7 Indigo.
  2. Go to Help > Install New Software ....
  3. Enter the URL http://ceylon-lang.org/eclipse/updatesite/ in the Work With field and hit Enter. eclipseupdatesite
  4. Click Select All and then Finish.
  5. Wait while Eclipse installs the Ceylon plugin, and then restart Eclipse when prompted.
  6. Go to Help > Welcome to Ceylon to get started. welcomepage