Re: [cbi-dev] Building eclipse from source

[Brigham Henry Keys <bkeys@xxxxxxxxx>]

Okay thank you for the good advice. I don't need an old release, I'm investigating eclipse to see if it can replace vscode for me. All I need is C, C++, Python, and Java; I'd also like to do arduino development with it which I read there was a plugin for.

I went and downloaded the SDK but it seems to only include the java functionality; how can I expand eclipse to include functionality for the languages listed?

On 3/20/23 01:06, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote:

On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 4:02 AM Brigham Henry Keys <bkeys@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi all,

Can someone point me to some instructions of how to build eclipse IDE from source? I am currently consulting

https://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform-releng/Platform_Build

Your best bet for documentation is https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.releng.aggregator/blob/master/README.md#how-to-build-the-eclipse-sdk . If it's not sufficient please contribute a PR to enhance it as when someone is really used to smth he/she simply misses steps needed to build.

 

I am attempting a ppc64le linux build; hence I am trying to build from source. Unless there is some prebuilt ppc64le linux build of the eclipse IDE; that would be wonderful. I am trying to build the R4_8_maintenance branch but I also tried building master.

4_8 is ancient and I doubt anyone will even look at why this no longer builds. You would better look at 4_27 although many (me included) will only look into compile issues that happen with master.

With all that said - there is actually a prebuilt ppc64le available at https://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/R-4.27-202303020300/ . Direct download link is https://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/R-4.27-202303020300/download.php?dropFile=eclipse-SDK-4.27-linux-gtk-ppc64le.tar.gz . Eclipse no longer compiles any PPC variant other than ppc64le.

Hope that helps,

Alex

 

I follow the steps in the link and I eventually get an error about line 81 in

eclipse.platform.releng.aggregator4.7/eclipse.platform.swt.binaries/bundles/binaries-parent/pom.xml

about this ${toolsJar} variable, it needs to be an absolute path. I'm not sure what to do about it. I changed ${toolsJar} to /usr/bin/jar, and then I get an error about

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: bundleLocation not found: /home/bkeys/.m2/repository/org/eclipse/orbit/bundles/org.apache.ant/1.10.12-SNAPSHOT/org.apache.ant-1.10.12-SNAPSHOT.jar

Can someone please point me in the right direction of what I am supposed to do?

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