Re: [cdt-dev] best practices for managing a custom eclipse/CDT build in

[John Cortell <rat042@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was successful in installing CDT into an Eclipse SDK via a script. 
I figured I'd shared the exact details for anyone else looking to do the same:

1. Unzip the Eclipse SDK archive to c:\
2. Unzip the CDT p2 archive to c:\temp\p2
3. Create and run the following cmd file within c:\eclipse

eclipsec ^
   -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director  ^
   -nosplash ^
   --launcher.suppressErrors ^
   -consoleLog ^
   -destination c:\eclipse ^
   -installIU "org.eclipse.cdt.debug.edc.feature.group, 
org.eclipse.cdt.debug.gdbjtag.feature.group, 
org.eclipse.cdt.debug.ui.memory.feature.group, 
org.eclipse.cdt.examples.dsf.feature.group, 
org.eclipse.cdt.feature.group, org.eclipse.cdt.gdb.feature.group, 
org.eclipse.cdt.gdb.source.feature.group, 
org.eclipse.cdt.gnu.build.feature.group, 
org.eclipse.cdt.gnu.build.source.feature.group, 
org.eclipse.cdt.gnu.debug.feature.group, 
org.eclipse.cdt.gnu.debug.source.feature.group, 
org.eclipse.cdt.gnu.dsf.feature.group, 
org.eclipse.cdt.gnu.dsf.source.feature.group, 
org.eclipse.cdt.sdk.feature.group, 
org.eclipse.cdt.testing.feature.group, 
org.eclipse.cdt.util.feature.group, 
org.eclipse.cdt.platform.feature.group, 
org.eclipse.cdt.platform.source.feature.group" ^
   -repository file:/c:/temp/p2

Note that the -installIU parameter would vary based on what features 
you want installed. You can get the full list of IU's by running the 
same cmdline but with '-list' instead of an '-installIU ...' switch.

John

At 04:19 PM 8/3/2010, Andrew Overholt wrote:
> * John Cortell <rat042@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2010-08-03 17:07]:
> > My understanding is CDT distributions are now strictly p2 archives and
> > thus require installation via the Update Manager. Anyone know how this
> > could be done via a script?
>
> Look on the Eclipse wiki for docs on the p2 director application.  This
> can be used in scripts so you'd do something like:
>
> - unzip SDK archive
> - cd eclipse
> - ./eclipse -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director <other flags
>   giving it the CDT zip as a repository> -installIU org.eclipse.cdt.sdk
>   (or whatever you want to install)
>
> That'll install it into the Eclipse installation from where you're
> running the director application.  You can also install into other
> Eclipse installations but that's probably not what you want in this
> case.
>
> HTH,
>
> Andrew
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