Difference between revisions of "SMILA/Documentation/HowTo/Howto set up target platform"

Revision as of 11:51, 19 January 2012

This page describes which steps you have to follow to manually define a target platform for SMILA.

If you do not want to set it up manually, please follow the instructions on Howto set up dev environment

Download the eclipse SDK (if you have not already done so) and the Delta Pack from the eclipse download page listed in the Setup Development Environment Preconditions section.
- You should use the same eclipse version as target SDK and as the development IDE.
- Please note that it really should be the plain Eclipse SDK to prevent naughty problems from occurring when trying to start SMILA, because of conflicting bundles etc.
Extract the SDK in a directory you should name something like eclipse-target so you don't confuse it with your IDE's installation folder.
Unzip the Delta Pack' contents into the contents of the eclipse-target folder, always answer yes if the system asks you to confirm overwriting of files.

This directory will be referenced as "eclipse-target" in the following lines.

In your IDE do the following:

Click Window --> Preferences --> Plug-in Development --> Target Platform
Rename the new target, e.g. to "Running target + SMILA.Extension"
Click Add... --> Select "Nothing: Start with an empty target definition" for target initialization and click "Next"
Click Add... --> Select "Installation" and click "Next"
Click on "Browse..." and browse to your "eclipse-target" directory (SDK + delta pack) --> Click OK
--> Click Finish in the "Add Installation" window
Click "Add..." --> Select "Directory" --> Click Next --> Select SMILA.extension/eclipse/plugins folder under local trunk as the location --> Click Finish
The target definition dialog should now contain the following entries:
- Name: Running target + SMILA.Extension
- In page "Locations" the following entries:
  - Installation icon with path to your eclipse-target directory, showing the number of available plug-ins
  - Directory icon with path to the SMILA.extension/eclipse/plugins directory in your checked out SMILA code, showing the number of available plug-ins.
Change to page "Environment" and select "JavaSE-1.6" as Execution Environment
Click "Finish" and activate the new target platform by checking the box left to its name.
Click "OK"

Doing so will trigger compilation of your workspace.

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 This page describes which steps you have to follow to manually define a target platform for SMILA.
+If you do not want to set it up manually, please follow the instructions on [[SMILA/Development Guidelines/Howto set up dev environment#Defining_the_target_platform_the_easy_way|Howto set up dev environment]]
 ::*Download the eclipse SDK (if you have not already done so) and the <tt>Delta Pack</tt> from the eclipse download page listed in the [[SMILA/Development_Guidelines/Howto set up dev environment#Preconditions|Setup Development Environment Preconditions]] section.