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Compiling Eclipse Code [message #327069] Tue, 08 April 2008 14:22 Go to next message
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Originally posted by: lionel.marks.gmail.com

Hello everyone,

Yesterday I posted this message in the Newcomers newsgroup and the
foundations newsgroup but had no response. A person in the foundations
group said that I should post this in the platform newsgroup. I am a long
time user of Eclipse as an IDE, but not to actually use the Eclipse source
code, so I'm new to this. If I'm still in the wrong newsgroup, someone
please tell me which one is right for my question.

I recently checked out all the projects from CVS using the anonymous
access. I am trying to compile (build) them, but the import statements are
having difficulty finding some of the other classes in other projects.
Some it says it simply cannot find, others it says due to permission
details that it can't find them. Any ideas?

I want to try to run eclipse from the source code instead of the pre-made
version that is given when you install eclipse.

Thanks,
Lionel
Re: Compiling Eclipse Code [message #327071 is a reply to message #327069] Tue, 08 April 2008 14:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: merks.ca.ibm.com

Lionel,

Probably it will be very helpful to be totally explicit. I.e., I
extracted the following bundles from the following CVS repositories and
have the following problems with them. Someone had told me that much of
the platform was migrated to SVN, but I don't know about that. It would
sure be nice if projects provided Team Project Set files that their
clients could import, along with instructions for how to set up a
development environment using that approach. Hopefully if you provide
more specific details than "I checked out all the projects" someone will
be able to provide more specific help.

Also keep in mind that there is a big complex release engineering step
to go from the image in CVS/SVN to the final packaged build we all use.
Working with an image within the IDE will not end up yielding that same
result...


Lionel Marks wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Yesterday I posted this message in the Newcomers newsgroup and the
> foundations newsgroup but had no response. A person in the foundations
> group said that I should post this in the platform newsgroup. I am a
> long time user of Eclipse as an IDE, but not to actually use the
> Eclipse source code, so I'm new to this. If I'm still in the wrong
> newsgroup, someone please tell me which one is right for my question.
>
> I recently checked out all the projects from CVS using the anonymous
> access. I am trying to compile (build) them, but the import statements
> are having difficulty finding some of the other classes in other
> projects. Some it says it simply cannot find, others it says due to
> permission details that it can't find them. Any ideas?
>
> I want to try to run eclipse from the source code instead of the
> pre-made version that is given when you install eclipse.
>
> Thanks,
> Lionel
>
Re: Compiling Eclipse Code [message #327074 is a reply to message #327069] Tue, 08 April 2008 16:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: wharley.bea.com

"Lionel Marks" <lionel.marks@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:3bfc78130df4afea0d574d37ebaa4a32$1@www.eclipse.org...
> I want to try to run eclipse from the source code instead of the pre-made
> version that is given when you install eclipse.

To duplicate the Eclipse build, you'll want to run the releng builder. You
might want to spend some time perusing the FAQ at
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Platform-releng-faq , as a starting point.
Re: Compiling Eclipse Code [message #327368 is a reply to message #327069] Wed, 16 April 2008 16:31 Go to previous message
Andrew Overholt is currently offline Andrew OverholtFriend
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Hi Lionel,

On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:22:15 +0000, Lionel Marks wrote:
> I want to try to run eclipse from the source code instead of the
> pre-made version that is given when you install eclipse.

Have you looked into the source builds available on the download page?

There is a lot of documentation available regarding how the builds are
actually done. They use PDE Build to generate build.xml files and then
Eclipse's antRunner to do the actual building (with ecj aka JDT Core, of
course).

HTH,

Andrew
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