LDT/Developer Area/Building LDT from source

If you are experimenting with Lua Development Tools source code, you'll certainly be interested in building it by yourself.

Checking out the source code

• Clone the repository git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/ldt/org.eclipse.ldt.git

Building the source code

• Verify that you have installed Maven 3 properly on your system. See http://maven.apache.org/download.html to get it if you don't have it already.
• Use your terminal of choice to cd into the root folder of the LDT source tree you've cloned earlier.
• Run mvn clean package -P build-source,build-product
  • It is possible to build against an older Eclipse platform. As instance, if you want to build with Kepler, run:
    mvn clean package -P build-source,build-product,platform-kepler
  • It is possible to build only the product, but only against a platform that contain LDT plugins, run:
    mvn clean package -P build-product
• It may take quite a while when running for the first time, but you should end up with a message similar to the following, indicating that everything went well:

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 25:01.483s
[INFO] Finished at: Sun Apr 01 14:02:19 CEST 2012
[INFO] Final Memory: 104M/213M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Build results

They are two kinds of results from the build, repository and product:

• Products
  • RCP versions for win32/64, mac64 and linux32/64
  • Available under product/target/products/.
• P2 repository
  • It is a complete p2 repository including your freshly built version of LDT. You can reference this p2 repository location in an Eclipse installation and actually install LDT.
  • Available under product/target/repository/.