I am trying to automate the build process of RCP application. Currenty I'm having "ApplicationName.product" file im my RCP project. With the help of the file am exporting product. But I want to export the product through command line.
anyone have any idea on this?????
Thanks in advance.
You can use Tycho http://eclipse.org/tycho/ to manage your RCP projects by using Apache Maven, then you can test & build your RCP application from build automation system or command line by calling something like mvn package.
If you don't want to use Maven: the old-fashioned way to build RCP products is the ant-based PDE build. A good description how to set up your own build is Markus Barchfeld's article - it's quite old, but PDE build hasn't changed much since Eclipse 3.0.
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I have some core plugins created in my workspace that are built with BND tools in eclipse. Now I have to reference those core plugins in my eclipse RCP application which is developed with PDE tool in eclipse. But there is no visibility to the BND generated plugins inside the RCP application. May be I can manually copy those plugins to a folder and add the folder to the target. But I want to get rid of such manual task.
Is there any easy way to add the BND generated plugins as dependencies to my RCP application?
Thanks in advance.
I didn't try with recent version of eclipse and bndtools
But you can try my experiment done 4 year ago
https://github.com/filippor/bndPdeTarget
I have a working RCP application. Currently I do "Eclipse Product Export Wizard" for creating executable files from that application. I have already integrated Maven and Tycho in my application.
But I need to create the executable files automatically using Maven.
Can anyone please help regarding this?
Use Tycho maven plugin, its for eclipse packaging. you can follow this website http://modumind.com as a guide. A full fledged tutorial is provided by eclipse.org here https://www.eclipsecon.org/2013/node/1277.html
here is a sample eclipse application with tycho integrated, good place for you to start. http://www.modumind.com/downloads/rcp-example-20121112.zip
I am trying to add build steps in an Eclipse project (Eclipse CDT Version: 3.8.0 on Debian).
For instance, when instructing Eclipse to build it would:
1- Run premake
2- Run make
You get the gist.
There's 0 tutorials on the subject and I looked everywhere... Is it because this feature doesn't exist? That's hard to believe...
There is no tutorial for Eclipse build :D
May be you want to build your project? Correct me if I am wrong.
As I know, Eclipse supports us to use Ant build to build/ execute the build step for projects (not for Eclipse itself) => build.xml
And If you really want to do some things else, i think create a bat file. and then execute it when start Eclipse is a suggestion.
How do I build and install an Eclipse plugin using ant? I want to build a plugin as a zip file and then install the plugin on 32bit or 64bit eclipse. What am I supposed to do here?
Indeed, using PDE/Build to achieve a so-called headless build is difficult, but not impossible.
We are still building our RCP this way.
I recommend reading Paulin's and Sharma's tutorials on the issue.
The Eclipse PDE has its own builder which is built on ant. I'm not sure from your question if you are looking to simply build/export your plugin within eclipse or generate ant build scripts that can be run outside of eclipse. The latter is more difficult. Inside eclipse you can simple go to file -> export -> Plugin-Development -> Deployable plugin and the export wizard will walk you through it, you can select to deploy a zip or exploded directory and then select output location and presto you have your plugin built as a jar that can be dropped into an eclipse instance. If you are looking to use ant outside of eclipse to build you need to go through a series of steps that are complicated to get a 'headless build", if this is what you need to do Google "pde headless" build. I've tried it but gave up. There is also a good book "Building highly modular systems with OSGI/Equinox that has a chapter devoted to this. - Duncan
We have an Eclipse RCP product, for automation purpose, we'd like to export this product through the command line.
Actually, I found someone asked the similar questions before, such as Building Eclipse plugins and features on the command line. I followed the Eclipse PDE help guides, and built the product successfully by command line. But there is no executale file in the builded zip file.
How can I, by command line, get the same exported the RCP product as we get with the help of PDE UI? Thanks!
Calvin
Eclipse Tycho is a great way to produce Eclipse RCP products. I am using it to build both eclipse update-sites and a product. There are lots of examples online for how to setup your project files, like this one and this one.