how can i get the eclipse plugin folder absolute path through command line or Ant?
There isn't a singular eclipse plugins folder. There could be multiple installations of Eclipse on the system. Eclipse doesn't store anything globally that would enable one to find these installations. A typical Eclipse installation process is just unzipping a zip file.
I would recommend that you take Eclipse directory as a parameter to your script.
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I am currently trying to make an Eclipse istallation with installed plugins portable, so that you only have to copy the whole "eclipse"-folder to another system and have the same setup as on the original system.
My problem now is, that since eclipse 4.2 (?) when using Help > Install new Software... plugins are installed externally into the folder
C:/Users/Username/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_4.2.0_identifier
and not into the folder where the "eclipse.exe" is located:
C:/Program Files (x86)/eclipse
Now my question is if it is possible to make eclipse install additional plugins into the plugins/features-folder of eclipse's home folder (C:/Program Files (x86)/eclipse).
Unfortunately, it isn't possible to use the dropins-folder, because one plugin that shall be installed only exists as an update site.
I'm using
Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1 64bit
with
Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers
Version: Juno Service Release 2
32-bit (to provide portability).
Greets :)
Do not put your eclipse installation under the "Program Files" folder. Eclipse will install all plugins to its own folder by default, unless that folder is not writable from Eclipse. And the "Program Files" folder should not be writable by you (unless you are using administrative access rights). Only the trusted installer service account should modify that folder (following Windows guidelines).
Therefore unzip Eclipse somewhere else into a location where anyone is allowed to write, install your plugins and zip the whole folder again.
As an alternative to that ZIP package you may want to look at File -> Export -> Install -> Software items to file, where you can export (and re-import) a list of your already installed plugins.
What mack is trying to do should work, this is essentially what the eclipse foundation do to provide the various distros.
The plugin that is only available as an update site could be installed into and existing in-installation then copied to the new distro. Only trick is making sure you have all the feature and plugin jar files.
I need to install eclipse plugin required by Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP).
When I downloaded EMF Runtime, I have two directories: one is feature and the other one is plugins.
Then, what is the next step for installing them into eclipse?
My eclipse installation has directories including features/plugins and dropins. Is the plugin installation is just copying the files into feature/plugins directories and restart the eclipse? Or do I need any other step for the installation?
just copy and restart eclipse. if you get problems with eclipse, then start on command line with "eclipse -clean"
I was hoping to use the Qt plugin with Eclipse. The installation is very simple - just expand a tarball in the appropriate directory. After doing so, I can see trolltech folders under eclipse/features and eclipse/plugins. However, when I try to create a project, I see no sign of any Qt option. Nor do I see Qt listed in the Installed Software listing of plugins or features.
Eclipse: Galileo Build 3.5.2
CDT: 6.0.0.2
O/S: Ubuntu 10.10 i686 2.6.35-28-generic
Plugin in tarball: qt-eclipse-integration-linux.x86.1.6.1.tar.gz from here: http://qt.nokia.com/developer/eclipse-integration/
Starting Eclipse with -consolelog -debug didn't offer any enlightenment
Have the Qt plugins aged past their use-by date?
Update
Installing to /usr/share/eclipse is a mistake
Installing to /usr/lib/eclipse works
I would suggest that that the instructions on the Qt page could use some revision. Instead of saying:
Find your eclipse/plugins folder
It might be better to add: The eclipse folder should contain the eclipse executable, eclipse.ini, the plugins directory, and the features directory.
This would have kept me from being fooled by /usr/share/eclipse, which has a feature directory and a plugins directory, but is not the correct place to install additional plugins.
Try untaring under the dropins directory instead. Modern versions of Eclipse will not pickup plugins overlaid over the existing plugins and features directories. If dropins doesn't work then these plugins declare dependencies on older versions of eclipse components.
Find out where your eclipse installation lies in terminal. I have mine extracted to ~/tools/eclipse/
$ which eclipse
Navigate to the folder and extract the plugins into the plugins folder, the features into the features folder.
Start Eclipse back up and go to Window->Preferences->QT. Click Add and navigate to the executable directory. For me as of version 4.8.1 it was in /Qt/Desktop/Qt/4.8.1/gcc/bin. The includes directory auto updated to /Qt/Desktop/Qt/4.8.1/gcc/include, click Apply and restart if necessary.
After this I can create a new Qt Gui projects, Qt gui classes, Qt resource files and Qt console projects in addition to Qt Designer forms.
With the new Eclipse 3.5.2 Update manager, I am not able to find, how do I specify installation directory for my plugins. I use it, so that I can manage multiple installation of eclipse, without installation plugins again. Can anybody provide me settings, so that I can specify location for plugin, while installing it ?
You can use an external dropins folder, with the setting (in your eclipse.ini):
-Dorg.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins.directory=C:/jv/eclipse/mydropins
Now, the trick is:
If you install a new plugin through Eclipse itself, it will install it directly in its own plugins/features internal directories.
It is up to you to move those jars in a similar directory structure in your external dropins directory.
So this is not an exact solution for your problem, but at least that allows you to isolate those plugins in a shared external directory which will be read by different Eclipse installation on each Eclipse session startup.
What is the difference between these things from an Eclipse installation?
plugins
features
dropins folder
What is the correct use of these folders?
I usually use dropins for sharing plugins amongst multiple Eclipse installations.
See this article for the dropins directory within an Eclipse.
you can use some different structures to place the plug-ins into the Dropins folder – I prefer to separate them by domain:
/dropins/exampleA/plugins/…
/dropins/exampleB/plugins/…
/dropins/exampleC/eclipse/features/…
/dropins/exampleC/eclipse/plugins/…
But I prefer to reference an external dropins folder through the eclipse.ini.
-Dorg.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins.directory=C:/jv/eclipse/mydropins
The plugins/features directories in Eclipse are the default installation directories for plugin.
For more on the differences between features and plugins, see my SO answer:
you will copy features (declaration of a group of plugins) in the features directory
you will copy the actual plugins themselves in the plugins directory.
Within a dropin folder (either the one within eclipse or an external one), you will get back the same plugins/feature structure.
The dropins directory should be used to install a plugin manually. The typical process is that you download a plugin and extract that archive to the dropins directory.
The plugins directory on the other hand is reserved for Eclipse's updater. You should not mess with it manually. Eclipse will store all plugins you install using "Help"->"Software Updates" or "Help"->"Install new software" (depending on your Eclipse version).