Revision as of 10:19, 14 August 2009

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Eclipse-build aims to ease the building of the Eclipse SDK for Linux distributions.

Prerequisites for building with eclipse-build

• ANT version 1.7.1 or newer

HOW-TO build Eclipse SDK with eclipse-build released tarballs

• Download the latest eclipse-build*.tar.gz
• Extract the downloaded eclipse-build*.tar.gz
• Download Eclipse SDK sources in the eclipse-build* directory. NOTE: Eclipse-build provides source tarball created from the same tag as the official releases but with additional sources needed for the build.
• Run ./build.sh

If the build finishes without error there will be a build/eclipse-$YOUR_BUILD_ID-fetched-src/installation directory containing a ready to use Eclipse SDK.

Eclipse-build is verified to work on x86, x86_64 and ppc architectures. Additionally, a ppc64 build is provided in Fedora with additional patches which are not migrated to eclipse-build yet. Eclipse-build has been successfully tested on Fedora 11 and Debian unstable.

HOW-TO build Eclipse SDK from checked out eclipse-build trunk (useful for development)

Debian Build Requirements

Incomplete list:

* openjdk-6-jdk
* ant
* build-essential
* ... 

NB: At the time of writing (2009-08-13), the "ant" in testing is too old to build eclipse.

Fedora Build Requirements

• ant
• cairo >= 1.0
• gcc
• gcc-c++
• gecko-devel >= 1.9
• glib2-devel
• gnome-vfs2-devel
• gtk2-devel
• java-devel >= 1.6.0
• java-javadoc
• libgnome-devel
• libgnomeui-devel
• libXt-devel
• libXtst-devel
• make
• mesa-libGL-devel
• mesa-libGLU-devel
• nspr-devel
• xulrunner-devel-unstable

Dependencies (these are Fedora package names, let's make them generic)

• ant
• ant-antlr
• ant-apache-bcel
• ant-apache-bsf
• ant-apache-log4j
• ant-apache-oro
• ant-apache-regexp
• ant-apache-resolver
• ant-commons-logging
• ant-commons-net
• ant-javamail
• ant-jdepend
• ant-jsch
• ant-junit
• ant-nodeps
• ant-swing
• ant-trax
• cairo >= 1.0
• desktop-file-utils
• gcc
• gcc-c++
• gecko-devel >= 1.9
• glib2-devel
• gnome-vfs2-devel
• gtk2-devel
• icu4j-eclipse >= 1:4.0.1-3
• jakarta-commons-beanutils
• jakarta-commons-codec
• jakarta-commons-collections
• jakarta-commons-dbcp
• jakarta-commons-digester
• jakarta-commons-el >= 1.0-9
• jakarta-commons-fileupload
• jakarta-commons-httpclient
• jakarta-commons-launcher
• jakarta-commons-logging >= 1.0.4-6jpp.3
• jakarta-commons-modeler
• jakarta-commons-pool
• java-devel >= 1.6.0
• java-javadoc
• jetty >= 5.1.14-1.6
• jpackage-utils >= 0:1.5
• jsch >= 0:0.1.41
• junit >= 3.8.1-3jpp
• junit4
• libgnome-devel
• libgnomeui-devel
• libXt-devel
• libXtst-devel
• lucene >= 2.3.1-3.4
• lucene-contrib >= 2.3.1-3.4
• make
• mesa-libGL-devel
• mesa-libGLU-devel
• mx4j >= 2.1
• nspr-devel
• objectweb-asm
• regexp
• sat4j >= 2.1.0-1
• tomcat5-jasper-eclipse >= 5.5.27-6.3
• tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api >= 6.0.18-9.2
• unzip
• xulrunner-devel-unstable

To-do list

• See eclipse-build open bugs
• Add an item
• In Eclipse bugzilla, watch linux.packagingtools-inbox@eclipse.org if you want to be notified of new bugs

Planned items

• Add ant install target similar to 'make install' procedure
• Provision every feature separately so we can move them in dropins
• Add ability to build only given feature e.g org.eclipse.swt (Maybe)