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Re: Building Eclipse myself?

At 15:45 Uhr +0100 17.3.2004, Christian Mittendorf wrote:
Hi,

can anybody help and tell me where I can find instructions on how to build
my own version of Eclipse from scratch? Is there any documentation available
that describes which packages I need to checkout from CVS and so on?

A fast search on Eclipse.org did not reveal very useful information.

Do you want to build each and every bit of Eclipse yourself,
or do you want to modify some parts of it and reuse the rest?

I'm asking, because we haven't setup the source build for Mac OS X (yet).
(Search for "Source Build" on the download page for a particular build, e.g. M7;
the link instructions explains how to do it for the other platforms).

Do you want to volunteer for creating a script/setup for Mac OS X? :-)
Here is the bug for this:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=30214

But anyways, if you just want to self-host and then modify some plugins,
here are the steps:
- start Eclipse with empty workspace
- switch to Java perspective
- from the Run drop-down menu in the tool bar ("running man") select "Run..."
and create a new launch configuration of type "Run-time workbench"
- press "Run" button

-> a new instance of Eclipse launches: you are self-hosting!

To modify a plugin:
- connect to the CVS repository ("dev.eclipse.org")
- "Check out" the plugin you want to modify and wait until source been loaded into workspace
- modify the source
- launch previously created launch config.

-> Eclipse launches with your modifications.


--andre
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