On May 31, 2007, at 9:59 AM, Joe Little wrote:
> I'm trying to dive into Eclipse/WOLips and just to understand how a
> full project is supposed to look w/ packages,etc, I downloaded GVC's
> wonderful FrameWorks source.
This is probably the canonically worst place to start. We have a
complex build environment and an byzantine Ant builder.
> I can use the Import option in Eclipse to
> import from these pre-existing projects. However, it starts to
> immediately build them,
Problem number one. You really do need to have everything configured
_before_ you import them. In the meantime, uncheck Build
Automatically under the project menu. I can hear Mike moaning
already. :-) The Ant build is slooooow compared to the incremental
and having it kick off all the time will quickly make you suicidal.
> having trouble the ant function and certain
> lacking other frameworks. That's perhaps all fine and good.
There should have been a README.html when you unpacked the source.
You need to read this and follow every little step.
> What gets
> me is that every project (with an x on it now) has a pull down bar.
> Clicking on the project in the package explorer "loses" the expansion
> arrow and its empty.
That is because it caused Eclipse to throw an exception internally
during the import and the import never completed. My advice: just
import GVCFoundation to start with. Get it building correctly with
no error. Only then import the others.
> Would someone who groks eclipse care to tell me whats going on with
> this poor UI, and why I can't access any files that were just imported
> and processed. It saw them, and now its telling me its all off limits,
> so how can I fix anything?
They were not fully imported as the projects are referencing
something that you have not setup in Eclipse or your login environment.
Chuck
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