Re: [photran] building photran

[nchen.dev@xxxxxxx]

On Jul 29, 2008, at 3:55 AM, Stefan Kurzbach wrote:

> Hello Jake,
>
> I have managed to build the current HEAD from CVS
> (dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/technology). Remember that you are doing a
> plug-in build, so adding projects to the build path is not the right  
> way
> to go. Anyhow, everything should be set-up correctly already. The  
> steps
> I have done are the following:
>
> 1. Install Eclipse 3.4 for RCP/Plug-in Developers
> 2. Via "Help/Software Updates..." install the C/C++ Development Tools.
> The sources are not required to build Photran as mentioned in the old
> instructions.
> 3. Check out the Photran projects from CVS. You need the following 13
> projects which are all version 4.0.3 (please somebody correct me if  
> I am
> missing something):
> org.eclipse.photran-feature
> org.eclipse.photran.cdtinterface
> org.eclipse.photran.core
> org.eclipse.photran.errorparsers.xlf
> org.eclipse.photran.managedbuilder.core
> org.eclipse.photran.managedbuilder.gnu.ui
> org.eclipse.photran.managedbuilder.intel.ui
> org.eclipse.photran.managedbuilder.ui
> org.eclipse.photran.managedbuilder.xlf.ui
> org.eclipse.photran.ui
> org.eclipse.photran.intel-feature
> org.eclipse.photran.core.intel
> org.eclipse.photran.managedbuilder.intel.ui

You have org.eclipse.photran.managedbuilder.intel.ui entered twice in  
the list. So there are 12 items.

> 4. make sure everything is built correctly
> 5. Via "File/Export.../Plug-in Development/Deployable Features" export
> the 2 listed Photran features to a temporary directory.

What you have is the list without refactoring support. On the other  
hand, refactoring support depends on >= Java 5 so if you can't use  
that then maybe the list that Stefan has is the one you should use.

Here are the list of files needed for refactoring support (check them  
out from CVS)

org.eclipse.photran.vpg-feature
org.eclipse.photran.ui.vpg
org.eclipse.photran.core.vpg


> If you want to install these features in Eclipse I suggest downloading
> Eclipse 3.4 for C/C++ Developers and then use the Update Manager.  
> Add a
> new local site (your temporary directory) and select the 2 Photran
> features. This is the savest way to get them installed.

A quicker way might be to just drop the .jar files generated from  
File>Export...>Plug-in Development>Deployable Features into the dropin  
folder in the directory where you installed Eclipse 3.4 for C/C++  
Development. You should two features: base photran feature and the  
photran refactoring feature.

Then there next time when you restart Eclipse 3.4 for C/C++  
Development it will pick those files up. This is part of the new  
Equinox p2 system for Eclipse 3.4. See <http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Getting_Started#Dropins 
> for more information on how to get this to work.

This is a *quick* and *temporary* solution until the next beta is  
released.  I'll update the cvs-guide with these instructions for  
deploying Photran.

> Can anybody say when the next beta release is planned?
>
> Have a good day,
> Stefan
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Nicholas Chen

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Nicholas Chen