Re: [platform-dev] How do I build the eclipse sdk from CVS?

[Ben Staniford <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Kim & John,

As soon as I have legal approval, I'll submit.

Cheers,

Ben Staniford

On Wednesday 05 April 2006 16:43, John Arthorne wrote:
> Typically the SDK is not built manually.  Instead, just the native 
> fragments are compiled on the target platform (SWT and optionally 
> org.eclipse.core.filesystem), and checked into CVS.  Then, a single 
> eclipse build mechanism runs against CVS to build the SDK for all 
> platforms. If you haven't already done so, I suggest contacting 
> platform-swt-dev with your contribution and they can go through the 
> contribution process with you. To submit a platform patch for the 
> org.eclipse.core.filesystem plugin, please enter a bug report against 
> Platform Resources, including any patches to the native source or make 
> files, and attach the compiled native.
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> Hi there,
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> A while ago I ported the Eclipse 3.1 SDK(+ the native SWT bits) onto the
> Solaris X86_64 platform.  I'd really like to submit these changes back
> to the Eclipse CVS and so I was trying to work out how to patch my
> changes into a current CVS snapshot.  However, I can't work out how to
> actually build Eclipse from the CVS?  It seems to be all split up into
> different packages.  Is there a way of taking lots of packages from CVS
> and turning them into a buildable SDK?  What's the best way to do this?
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Ben Staniford.

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