[platform-ui-dev] RE: Compiling all of Eclipse from CVS snapshot

[Dean_Roberts@xxxxxxxxxx]

To do this you want to download a source build.

Links to source builds can be found on each drop page.  For example.  The source build for the last integration build is at:

http://download.eclipse.org/downloads/drops/I-I20030115-200301151011/index.php

You can pick a flavour that includes the source and build scripts or one that just has the build scripts and checks the source out of CVS using anonymous FTP.

You can not just do your own CVS checkout since you need the build.xml files.  Most of these are generated by PDE-BUILD, an Eclipse plug-in.

These source builds do not build he C source for SWT or the launcher.  If you want to find out how to do that you should post a message to the platform-swt-dev mailing list.  If you have any more questions about building Eclipse you can post a message to the platform-releng-dev mailing and we would be glad to help.

As an aside, are you sure you really need to build form source to do profiling work?

Cheers.

...Dean...