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How to integrate struct data type to 4DIAC IDE? [message #1790247]

Thu, 07 June 2018 07:48

Eclipse User

How to integrate struct data type to 4DIAC IDE?
--> I have already downloaded FORTE and I can find the definition of TestStruct, But how to integrate it to 4DIAC-IDE?

Re: How to integrate struct data type to 4DIAC IDE? [message #1790287 is a reply to message #1790247]

Thu, 07 June 2018 16:13

Eclipse User

4diac-ide is currently only partly supporting user defined data types. That means you can not directly define structs in 4diac-ide or generate the code for it. As described in the development docs you need to implement your struct in cpp following the teststruct example. In order to get it into the ide you need to edit one FB's XML file and change a data in or output data type name to your struct's name. then 4diac-ide will parse this correctly and teh name can be used also in other FBs. However 4diac-ide will not understand the internals of the struct.

Re: How to integrate struct data type to 4DIAC IDE? [message #1790293 is a reply to message #1790287]

Fri, 08 June 2018 00:45

Eclipse User

Thanks for your reply. I created a task for my colleague to integrate the struct into 4DIAC-IDE. We want to add this feature to 4DIAC IDE by building it from source code. We follow the instructions from
http://fordiac.sourceforge.net/ehelp/html/development/installFromSource.html. But the Eclipse Modeling Tool reports problems.

Eclipse Modeling Tool: Neon
4DIAC IDE source :http://git.eclipse.org/c/4diac/org.eclipse.4diac.ide.git

BTW, where can I download the 4DIAC lib? I find the source from sourceforge, but no git repository.
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Re: How to integrate struct data type to 4DIAC IDE? [message #1790298 is a reply to message #1790293]

Fri, 08 June 2018 03:14

Eclipse User

Having a better support for structs in the IDE would be great.

Thanks for pointing out your problems. With all the changes we performed for 1.9.0 we hadn't time to update all the documentation. There are a view things we should fix here:

1. Please always use the latest Eclipse Modeling tools (currently Oxygen.3a). Neon is already nearly 2 years old
2. Always use the target platform as described in the section "Set Target Platform"
3. With 1.9.0 we migrated the type-library into the ide repository. You can find it in the data directory

The link to the documentation you provided pointed to sourceforge. Where did you get that link? The latest version of the documentation is located at: https://www.eclipse.org/4diac/en_help.php, or in the help of Eclipse 4diac-ide. The source for the help is hosted in the git repo of 4diac-ide. you can find it in the org.eclipse.fordiac.ide plugin under html.

Re: How to integrate struct data type to 4DIAC IDE? [message #1790501 is a reply to message #1790298]

Mon, 11 June 2018 22:11

Eclipse User

Thanks for your help. I create a draft document for describing how to build & run 4DIAC-IDE from source. Please correct me if anything is wrong.

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Re: How to integrate struct data type to 4DIAC IDE? [message #1790516 is a reply to message #1790501]

Tue, 12 June 2018 05:09

Eclipse User

Hi thanks the update doc. I would have the following comments:
1. always use the latest Eclipse modeling tools (e..,g in 2 weeks Photon will be released)
2. always use the target platform, the target platform describes all dependencies of 4diac-ide and leads to a clean build environment. Although it requires to put the template and typelib at a different less easy to find place.

If you want to build own 4diac-ide binaries with your code I recommend to use the maven/tycho build environment. Just run a maven clean install on the pom.xml in the org.eclipse.fordiac.ide.master project. If you installed the maven tooling into your eclipse you can easily do this by right clicking on the pom.xml. Or you can also use it in build servers. See for example the official Eclipse 4diac Jenkins [1].

Would you be interested in providing your improvements to the docs as gerrit commits? In the documentation there is a section on how to contribute to FORTE by simple replacing the FORTE repo with the 4diac-ide repo the same procedure works.

Thanks in advance,
Alois

[1] https://ci.eclipse.org/4diac/

Re: How to integrate struct data type to 4DIAC IDE? [message #1790683 is a reply to message #1790516]

Thu, 14 June 2018 08:38

Eclipse User

I can upload the document to Gerrit after I complete it.
When I trying to export, I meet below errors.
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Re: How to integrate struct data type to 4DIAC IDE? [message #1790695 is a reply to message #1790683]

Thu, 14 June 2018 11:38

Eclipse User

Great Thanks.

As I said above. I currently do not recomend the step export product but the tycho maven based build: Just run a maven clean install on the pom.xml in the org.eclipse.fordiac.ide.master project

Re: How to integrate struct data type to 4DIAC IDE? [message #1791478 is a reply to message #1790683]

Sat, 30 June 2018 04:00

Eclipse User

Update document for building fordiac IDE

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Re: How to integrate struct data type to 4DIAC IDE? [message #1791587 is a reply to message #1791478]

Mon, 02 July 2018 12:15

Eclipse User

There are two things I noticed afte quickly going through your update:
1 . when using the traget platform the typelib and template directory have to be put into a different location: "your workspace path"/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.pde.core/.bundle_pool
2. I'm no maven expert but we always use mvn clean install in our CI server.

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