Re: [birt-dev] Building BIRT outside of Eclipse

[Daniel John Debrunner <djd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Deepa Remesh wrote:
> This question was asked in the newsgroup before. Information is in
> this thread: 
> http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.birt/msg15588.html

Thanks, I tried following the instructions but they don't seem to work 
or maybe they are not up to date.

They say that org.eclipse.releng.basebuilder should be checked out which 
I did using

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvsroot/eclipse co 
org.eclipse.releng.basebuilder

The instructions then expect a startup.jar to exist in the 
org.eclipse.releng.basebuilder folder but it doesn't exist.

I tried using the startup.jar from the baseLocation (Eclipse 3.2.1 SDK) 
but then complains that a file is missing

BUILD FAILED
/home/djd/cruise/cruisecontrol-bin-2.6.1/projects/birt/source/org.eclipse.birt.releng.birtbuilder/build.xml:39: 
The following error occurred while executing this line:
/home/djd/eclipse_base/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.pde.build_3.2.1.r321_v20060823/scripts/build.xml:22: 
The following error occurred while executing this line:
/home/djd/eclipse_base/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.pde.build_3.2.1.r321_v20060823/scripts/build.xml:37: 
The following error occurred while executing this line:
/home/djd/eclipse_base/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.pde.build_3.2.1.r321_v20060823/templates/headless-build/customTargets.xml:8: 
Cannot find birt/allElements.xml imported from 
/home/djd/eclipse_base/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.pde.build_3.2.1.r321_v20060823/templates/headless-build/customTargets.xml


The instructions also refer to a
org.eclipse.birt.releng.eclipsebuilder
which I assume should be
org.eclipse.birt.releng.birtbuilder


> However, I think it is not possible to build the head from outside
> Eclipse. It would be nice if someone more familiar in this area can
> confirm this.

That would be a shame, that's a great way to put people off the project 
and spend their time on other open source projects.

Thanks,
Dan.

> Thanks,
> Deepa
>
> On 3/16/07, Daniel John Debrunner <djd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Where can I find the instructions on how to build BIRT outside of 
> > Eclipse?