Local Build
Sapphire build is designed to be easy for developers to run locally on their machines.
- Clone Sapphire Git repository. Let's call the Git working directory
[root]. - Make sure that you have Ant and JDK 5 installed. Both should be on the path.
- Set
JDK_15_HOMEenvironment variable to point to your JDK 5 install. - Open a shell to
[root]and execute"ant clean-start".
Note A: The build requires internet access to pull down dependencies from eclipse.org downloads
server. If you are behind a proxy, you will need to invoke build with proxy configuration. If the
proxy is properly configured at the operating system level, you should only need add -autoproxy
switch to the build command.
Example: ant clean-start -autoproxy.
Note B: If you are working with multiple Sapphire branches, you may want to share the downloads
directory so that every branch does not need to re-download everything it needs from eclipse.org
servers. The default downloads folder is [root]/downloads, but you can change it by setting
downloads property when invoking the build. Note that the you need to set it to an absolute
path.
Example: ant clean-start -Ddownloads=d:/sapphire/downloads
Once the build completes, you will notice the following key folders added to [root] folder:
- build/repository : Repository of build artifacts, including runtime bundles, source bundles and the SDK.
- dev-eclipse : Eclipse with select plugins along with Sapphire SDK from the build. This Eclipse configuration is designed to be appropriate for working on Sapphire.
- dev-target : Eclipse with select plugins along with all of Sapphire, including source bundles. This Eclipse configuration is designed to make a good target platform.
