Scratchbox (www.scratchbox.org) is a cross-compilation toolkit that enables development for different environments and processor architectures on a Linux platform, for work on embedded systems. To provide developers an IDE when using Scratchbox, we created Eclipse plug-ins that enable compiling, running and debugging programs inside the Scratchbox environment while using the C/C++ development tools of the CDT project. We outline what was required to reuse and extend parts of the Eclipse IDE and CDT to provide this support, and attempt to highlight points that might interest developers facing a similar development effort. The results have since been further developed at the Tampere University of Technology and enriched with features to provide support for the SDK of the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet device. The SDK is based on Scratchbox and is known as Maemo (www.maemo.org). Since being publicly available, the project has had over 1000 downloads to date. (http://www.cs.tut.fi/~laika/)