Re: [eclipse-ide-wg] Building Eclipse IDE

[Christoph Läubrich <laeubi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

from recent discussions I can tell that most of the time the limiting 
factor is getting hold of real hardware for building + tests.


SWT already have this:

https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.swt.binaries/tree/master/bundles/org.eclipse.swt.gtk.linux.ppc64le

and there seem to be a launcher library as well for equinox:

https://github.com/eclipse-equinox/equinox.binaries/tree/master/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.ppc64le

so from a technical point of view everything should be there.

If you want to build "the platform" from source you best use the 
instructions here:

https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.releng.aggregator/

this will build everything from java source (it takes quite long ~ 30 
minutes) and after that in the folder

eclipse.platform.releng.aggregator/eclipse.platform.releng.tychoeclipsebuilder/eclipse.platform.repository/target/products/

org.eclipse.platform.ide-linux.gtk.ppc64le.tar.gz
org.eclipse.sdk.ide-linux.gtk.ppc64le.tar.gz

as a result, maybe this already helps, but be aware that this is a bit 
different from what you find on the download pages, so you probably need 
to install your favorite plugins.


Am 19.04.23 um 07:56 schrieb Brigham Henry Keys:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there a reason inparticular that the eclipse installer isn't 
> distributed for ppc64le? Would it build on a ppc64le environment?
>
> On 3/19/23 19:55, Brigham Henry Keys wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Can someone point me to some instructions of how to build eclipse IDE 
> > from source? I am currently consulting
> >
> > https://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform-releng/Platform_Build
> >
> > I am attempting a ppc64le linux build; hence I am trying to build from 
> > source. Unless there is some prebuilt ppc64le linux build of the 
> > eclipse IDE; that would be wonderful. I am trying to build the 
> > R4_8_maintenance branch but I also tried building master. I follow the 
> > steps in the link and I eventually get an error about line 81 in
> >
> > eclipse.platform.releng.aggregator4.7/eclipse.platform.swt.binaries/bundles/binaries-parent/pom.xml
> >
> > about this ${toolsJar}variable, it needs to be an absolute path. I'm 
> > not sure what to do about it. I changed ${toolsJar} to 
> > /usr/bin/jar,and then I get an error about
> >
> > Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: bundleLocation not 
> > found: 
> > /home/bkeys/.m2/repository/org/eclipse/orbit/bundles/org.apache.ant/1.10.12-SNAPSHOT/org.apache.ant-1.10.12-SNAPSHOT.jar
> >
> > Can someone please point me in the right direction of what I am 
> > supposed to do?
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