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Building eclipse headless when CVS is not available [message #331828]

Wed, 24 September 2008 08:18

Steffen Schramm

Messages: 1
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hello together,

at our company we want to learn how to build an own RCP app headless and
how to automate tests. I found this article for:
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-PDE-Automation/autom ation.html

A first step is to build an eclipse component headless. Unfortunately I
cannot use CVS here as the firewall is blocking it. From my computer at
home I checked out the necessary CVS sources. Now I wanted to start the
build, but there stills seems CVS necessary.

Is there any chance to build eclipse when CVS is not available? The
required sources should already be available on my disk.

Or is there another way? My final target is to have a small own RCP app
with unit tests and a build setup that allows to build and test the
application headless and automatically. Until now we built our RCP apps
only from within the Eclipse IDE.

Thanks for any help.

Best regards,
Steffen

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Re: Building eclipse headless when CVS is not available [message #331831 is a reply to message #331828]

Wed, 24 September 2008 12:44

Daniel KrÃ¼gler

Messages: 853
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Steffen Schramm wrote:
> Hello together,
>
> at our company we want to learn how to build an own RCP app headless and
> how to automate tests. I found this article for:
> http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-PDE-Automation/autom ation.html
>
> A first step is to build an eclipse component headless. Unfortunately I
> cannot use CVS here as the firewall is blocking it. From my computer at
> home I checked out the necessary CVS sources. Now I wanted to start the
> build, but there stills seems CVS necessary.
>
> Is there any chance to build eclipse when CVS is not available? The
> required sources should already be available on my disk.

Yes, there is no requirement that your sources are supposed to be
fetched by CVS or other means. The default values of the properties

skipBase=true
skipMaps=true
skipFetch=true

of the build.properties file already match your use-case.

> Or is there another way? My final target is to have a small own RCP app
> with unit tests and a build setup that allows to build and test the
> application headless and automatically. Until now we built our RCP apps
> only from within the Eclipse IDE.

Take care for jar packaged in a plugin, which is deployed as a jar, see
the thread "Curiosities in headless feature build" in
eclipse.platform.rcp and bug

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=157375

otherwise most problems are solvable.

HTH and Greetings from Bremen,

Daniel Krügler

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