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Subject: Re: [build] Building on Eclipse - FYI
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Konovalova, Svetlana wrote:
> Folks,
>  
> I see that we do need one more building doc describing Eclipse
> specifics. 
> The main doc containing building instructions now is the "Getting
> Started for Contributors" page.
> [http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/quickhelp_contributors.html].
> My suggestion is to add one more section to it describing building
> instructions for Eclipse. How about that?
> 

Gah.  I think it's good to have instructions on how to build in eclipse, 
but I think it should be a separate document with a link from the 
quickhelp page.

Why? Because I think we should emphasize the "canonical" way to build 
that we all support, and other ways are interesting, useful, but not 
supported.

Eclipse is one of many ways to do it, and we wouldn't put every way to 
build in that doco.

(it would be nice to have another doc on MSVS as well, pointing to 
Mikhail's contributions of config files for MSVS for DRLVM)

geir


> If you need my help, I'll be glad to manage the doc creation:)
>   
> Cheers,
> Sveta
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sian January [mailto:sianjanuary@googlemail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 4:06 PM
> To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: [build] Building on Eclipse - FYI
> 
> Hi Nathan,
> 
> Yes - I was trying to run the enitre build in Eclipse and this is always
> my
> preferred method of building.  There is at least one other extra step
> apart
> from the one discussed in this thread so I think some additional
> documentation would be useful.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sian
> 
> 
> 
> On 25/10/06, Nathan Beyer <nbeyer@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Are you referring to running the build scripts via Eclipse? Just
>> wanted to make sure I understand.
>>
>> Personally, I only import the module projects one at a time and run
>> the full builds outside of Eclipse, so I've never tried this. Perhaps
>> some additional documentation on using Eclipse in this fashion. This
>> might be helpful additionally.
>>
>> On 10/24/06, Sian January <sianjanuary@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I encountered a problem today building on Eclipse, and I just
> thought
>> I'd
>>> post about it here in case anyone sees the same problem in the
>> future.  I
>>> was getting the error:
>>>
>>>
>>> BUILD FAILED
>>> *
>>>
>>> C:\eclipse32harmony\eclipse\workspace\Harmony\build.xml:108: The
>> following
>>> error occurred while executing this line:
>>>
>>>
> C:\eclipse32harmony\eclipse\workspace\Harmony\make\build-java.xml:127:
>> The
>>> Eclipse compiler class for Ant could not be found. Please place the
> ECJ
>> JAR
>>> in ANT_HOME/lib. The JAR can copied from
>> CLASSLIB_TRUNK/depends/jars/ecj_3.2
>>> folder after the fetch-depends target has been run.
>>> *
>>>
>>> The solution to this is to copy ecj_3.2.jar into
>>> ..\plugins\org.apache.ant_1.6.5\lib and *also* change the Ant
> settings
>> to
>>> include this jar (Window > Preferences > Ant > Runtime then select
>> 'Global
>>> Entries' then 'Add External Jars' and add ecj_3.2.jar from the
>>> org.apache.ant_1.6.5\lib directory).
>>>
>>> I don't know if many people build on Eclipse, and I know there have
> been
>>> some conversations about having too many instructions on the
> website,
>> but
>>> since the steps are slightly different for Eclipse I wondered if it
>> might be
>>> worth augmenting the instructions or adding some Eclipse-specific
> ones
>> at
>>> some point?
>>>
>>> Sian
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sian January
>>>
>>> IBM Java Technology Centre, UK
>>>
>>>
> 
> 
>