With the command above, the basic libraries and utilities for building c and cpp code will be installed, such as, dpkg-dev, gcc, g++, make and libc6-dev. $ sudo apt install -y pkg-config build-essential libreadline-dev bison flex In order to build PostgreSQL source code, we need to install the basic build dependency with below command. Now, we are on PostgreSQL 12 stable release branch.

Run the commands below to check out version 12.

This tutorial will use the latest PostgreSQL12 stable branch to explain how to build and debug the source code using the latest Eclipse IDE. PostgreSQL has a version 12 released in October 2019, and later was upgraded to 12.1 in November. PostgreSQL has the source code available on github, in order to check out the source code, you need to install git using the command below. Install git and checkout PostgreSQL source code The option “Minimal Installation” with web browser and basic utilities is good enough for this tutorial. Go to the Ubuntu official website to download the latest LTS Ubuntu 18.04.3 Desktop (64-bit) and Install it on a virtual machine such as VirtualBox. This tutorial provides detailed instructions to help a newbie setup the building and debugging environment with the latest Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers for current Postgres 12.1 release on LTS Ubuntu 18.04.

Eclipse c++ ide for ubuntu 18.04