[tycho-user] How to build Eclipse package? (start-up problem)

[Michael Vorburger <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I'm trying to learn how to build a complete Eclipse packages (like what one downloads from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/) from scratch myself using Tycho. May I ask for help here?

git clone https://github.com/vorburger/com.temenos.ds.op.git

cd com.temenos.ds.op.git

mvn -f mirror-pom.xml prepare-package

mvn -o package

base/releng/com.temenos.ds.op.base.sdk.repository/target/products/com.temenos.ds.op.sdk.ide.product/linux/gtk/x86_64/eclipse

fails to start-up. configuration/*.log says  "java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to acquire application service. Ensure that the org.eclipse.core.runtime bundle is resolved and started (see config.ini)."  I vaguely understand that I must have somehow somewhere not told it how / what to bootstrap? Where can one learn more about this?

Do I need some  <configurations><plugin id="..." autoStart="?" startLevel="?" /> in https://github.com/vorburger/com.temenos.ds.op/blob/master/base/releng/com.temenos.ds.op.base.sdk.repository/com.temenos.ds.op.sdk.ide.product ? I looked at http://git.eclipse.org/c/epp/org.eclipse.epp.packages.git/tree/packages/org.eclipse.epp.package.dsl.product/epp.product, but that doesn't have any.. 

I CAN run the EPP builds locally and get working package, of course, but am having trouble to understand what I'm missing from there to get my example to work? Educate me!

Thank you very much,

Michael 

PS: Is the org.eclipse.epp:org.eclipse.epp-parent artifact available on a public Maven repo. @eclipse.org so that one could use it as <parent> in something like what I'm trying to do?

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Michael Vorburger
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