Command-line Build Instructions

The build is maven-based, assisted by a set of Eclipse build plugins called Tycho. The maven plugin repository for Tycho and all it's particulars are configured in the parent pom.xml file in this directory.

Full build requires:

• Maven 3
• Java 7
• Java 7 packages for each target platform (optional, for bundling JRE)

Building without bundling the Java Runtime Environment is easy:

mvn package

The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) can be bundled within each distribution package. To perform a bundled build, you must first download and unpack the JRE folder for all the platforms into a directory structure as follows:

bundledJREs
  |-linux-i586
  |   \jre1.7.0_25
  |-linux-x86
  |   \jre1.7.0_25
  |-windows-x86
  |   \jre1.7.0_25
  |-windows-i586
  |   \jre1.7.0_25
  \-macosx-x64
      \jre1.7.0_25.jre

Then the distribution packages and update site are all created in one maven command:

mvn -DbundleJREs=true -DbundleJREs.dir=<full path of bundledJREs dir> package

The distribution packages can be found here after the build:

<project base dir>/eclipse-repository/target/products

Developer Eclipse IDE Setup

1. Install Eclipse IDE and required plugins:

• Eclipse Modelling Project feature or choose this product download (this includes RCP/PDE bundles)
• m2eclipse plugin and connectors, see Maven > Discovery in preferences
• Tycho Configurator m2eclipse connector
• m2e-egit Maven SCM Handler for EGit

1. Import Maven Projects from SCM
2. Select git and this project URL.
3. Open the current target-definition file. (As on this writing, target-definition\indigo_3_8.target)
4. Click on "Set as Target Platform" in the upper right.
5. To fix logging classpath markers, maven install these subprojects:

• org.apache.log4j12
• org.slf4j.log4j12

1. To enable PDE logging via SLF4J, maven install this one too:

• org.slf4j.pde