[pde-build-dev] PDE source-plugin build

["Weir, Michael" <Michael.Weir@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: PDE source-plugin build

I'm trying to generate source plugins.  I've tried to follow the instructions in "Advanced PDE build topics/Generating Source Features and Plug-ins", but am getting nowhere.  When I include my "xxx.sdk" feature in my build, it fails during the generate step for the xxx.sdk, saying that it 'couldn't create feature file: yyy' where yyy is previously built and is in the output directory.  It fails after having created the xxx.source feature and plugin, but before writing the build.xml files for either the sdk or source features and plugins.

Before begging for help, I'd like to know what debugging facilities are available.  Is it possible to get the PDE build to tell you what it's doing?  I'm finding the output quite terse, and the error messages not very useful since they usually tell you what went wrong but not what the build was doing or what it expected, etc.

I know you can use -debug and an .options file, but I haven't seen a description of what can be put into the file.

How hard would it be to build the PDE plugins on my machine and add my own debug logging?

Thanks for any help.

Michael Weir · Cognos Incorporated · 3755 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, ON Canada K1G 4K9 · (613) 738-1338 Ext. 3606

 

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