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How to create installable plugin [message #1711070]

Mon, 12 October 2015 16:37

Prakyath Jaladhar

Messages: 15
Registered: July 2015

Junior Member

Hi,

I have written the grammar of my language and want to install this as a plugin in an eclipse distribution and test it. What steps should I follow for this purpose?

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Re: How to create installable plugin [message #1711074 is a reply to message #1711070]

Mon, 12 October 2015 17:06

Stefan Oehme

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Registered: April 2010
Location: Kiel

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For testing purposes just right click and select "Run As -> Eclipse Application"
For exporting it to another Eclipse, select "Export -> Installable Plugins"

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Re: How to create installable plugin [message #1711075 is a reply to message #1711074]

Mon, 12 October 2015 17:41

Prakyath Jaladhar

Messages: 15
Registered: July 2015

Junior Member

Thank you for the suggestion. I tried to do this:

1. Select File->Export...->Plug-in Development->Deployable Features & click Next
2. Select your DSL project in the list of features (<your.dsl>.sdk)
3. Select a directory for the resulting repository and click Finish.

But this generates an error. To test if my project has some error, I created a fresh xtext project and followed the same process, I get the same error. Here is the error log for the sample hello world xtext project.

/home/workspace/org.xtext.example.mydsl.sdk/assemble.org.xtext.example.mydsl.sdk.p2.xml:38: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/home/workspace/org.xtext.example.mydsl.sdk/assemble.org.xtext.example.mydsl.sdk.p2.xml:48: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/home/workspace/org.xtext.example.mydsl.sdk/assemble.org.xtext.example.mydsl.sdk.p2.xml:24: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/home/workspace/org.xtext.example.mydsl/build.xml:271: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/home/workspace/org.xtext.example.mydsl/build.xml:375: Problem: failed to create task or type apitooling.apigeneration
Cause: The name is undefined.
Action: Check the spelling.
Action: Check that any custom tasks/types have been declared.
Action: Check that any <presetdef>/<macrodef> declarations have taken place.

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