SMILA/Documentation/HowTo/Howto set up dev environment

Setup an Eclipse instance/installation for SMILA

Set-up for SMILA developers

Installed Eclipse and delta-pack

If you still have not installed an eclipse and/or a delta-pack, you may download it from:

• Eclipse download location: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
• Delta-pack download location: http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/

Checkout SMILA sources from Eclipse svn

You may check out our sources from:

http://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/rt/org.eclipse.smila/

Import sources into Eclipse

If you don´t check out our sources into Eclipse, you have to import the sources into Eclipse see below:

Click File --> Import --> General --> Existing Projects into Workspace --> Next --> Select root folder of local trunk --> Finish

Define target platform

The goal of the following set up is to use Eclipse installation as target platform with adding the plug-ins from SMILA.extensions folder.

• Click Window --> Preferences --> Plug-in Development --> Target Platform
• Click Add... --> Select File System --> Click Next --> Click Add --> Select SMILA.extension/eclipse/plugins folder under local trunk

Launch SMILA in Eclipse

There is a folder SMILA.launch located in our trunk. This folder contains a launch configuration file for Eclipse. With this file you have the possibility to start SMILA in Eclipse. Follow the steps below:

• Click Debug --> Debug Configurations and expand OSGI Framework
• Select launch file for your environment and press Debug

• If everything is started correctly, you will get an output in the Eclipse Console like below: