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Is there a Tutorial for Exporting products for multiple platforms? [message #784554]

Fri, 27 January 2012 17:38

John Lussmyer

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Registered: December 2010

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I have a product that works fine on Win32. I can export it with an installer, and the installer works.
I've downloaded the Delta packs that match my Eclipse RCP version.

Now, is there a tutorial on just what needs to be done so I can generate Linux, Mac, etc.. versions?
The help is somewhat lacking in this regard.

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Re: Is there a Tutorial for Exporting products for multiple platforms? [message #785757 is a reply to message #784554]

Sun, 29 January 2012 12:29

Bernard Sarter

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Registered: August 2011
Location: Paris, France

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Hello,

You can use Buckminster for that (have a look here: http://www.ralfebert.de/blog/eclipsercp/rcp_builds/, the link explains how to do it in a headless configuration with Hudson/Jenkins, but you can do the same from your IDE, with the Buckinster plugin).

The first time, you may consider that as complex and cryptic, but after a while, some tests & trial, it is just powerful Wink

Regards,
Bernard.

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Re: Is there a Tutorial for Exporting products for multiple platforms? [message #788302 is a reply to message #785757]

Wed, 01 February 2012 16:09

David Casas

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Registered: November 2011
Location: Barcelona

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Hi,

it is quite easy to export them to multiple OS, just download the eclipse Delta Pack (it is not working properly on Linux OS) and put it on the Plugin Preferences of eclipse. Once you've done that you will be able to export to different OS platforms just exporting your product Wink

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Re: Is there a Tutorial for Exporting products for multiple platforms? [message #790834 is a reply to message #788302]

Sat, 04 February 2012 23:11

John Lussmyer

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Registered: December 2010

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Ok, I've been trying to export to multiple platforms.
I have an Eclipse RCP installation for version 3.7.1.
I downloaded the 3.7.1 delta pack, and added it to that eclipse.
I select export to multiple platforms, and select some others. (it doesn't matter which ones I select)
ANYTHING other than the Win64 version I developed with doesn't work.
They all give me an error of the form:
Processing inclusion from feature org.eclipse.equinox.executable: Unable to find plug-in: org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_1.1.100.v20110505. Please check the error log for more details.

There is no other information in the log.

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Re: Is there a Tutorial for Exporting products for multiple platforms? [message #790853 is a reply to message #790834]

Sat, 04 February 2012 23:46

John Lussmyer

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Registered: December 2010

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Did more searching.
The plugins ARE in the eclipse/plugins directory.
They do NOT show up in the Installation Details, Plug-ins list.
So, anyone know how to get Eclipse to find them?

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Re: Is there a Tutorial for Exporting products for multiple platforms? [message #791743 is a reply to message #790853]

Mon, 06 February 2012 08:00

Thomas Schindl

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Registered: July 2009

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You should not add them to your running eclipse but use a target platform!

Tom

Am 05.02.12 00:46, schrieb Missing name Mising name:
> Did more searching.
> The plugins ARE in the eclipse/plugins directory.
> They do NOT show up in the Installation Details, Plug-ins list.
> So, anyone know how to get Eclipse to find them?

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Re: Is there a Tutorial for Exporting products for multiple platforms? [message #793381 is a reply to message #791743]

Wed, 08 February 2012 04:17

John Lussmyer

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Registered: December 2010

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Okay, I guess I need some definitions here.
Define "Target Platform".

I installed Eclipse with the RCP stuff to an "EclipseRCP" directory.
I launch Eclipse from that directory to work on my RCP application.
I've noticed that when I run the app from within Eclipse, it runs from that directory tree.

So, where is this "Target Platform"?

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Re: Is there a Tutorial for Exporting products for multiple platforms? [message #793528 is a reply to message #793381]

Wed, 08 February 2012 08:50

Sabir pasha

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Registered: February 2010

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You find Target Platform in your Window->Preference ->Plugin-Development->Target Platform
By default it refers to your working eclipse so here you need to add one more directory to the target platform which is your delta-pack directory
, where you have extracted the delta-pack lib which you downloaded
So now your target platform will have the org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86 plugin which is needed for exporting the product to run on Linux Platform

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Re: Is there a Tutorial for Exporting products for multiple platforms? [message #831476 is a reply to message #793528]

Thu, 29 March 2012 00:17

John Lussmyer

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Registered: December 2010

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Getting back to this again.
While I do now have all the Delta packs, and can now export my RCP app to multiple platforms, it seems that the only one that will actually WORK is the one I'm building on.
Looking at the product Dependencies - it seems to only have the org.eclipse.swt.(current platform) dependency.
Since the Dependencies list appears to be for ALL the products simultaneously - shouldn't it list all the different org.eclise.swt.xxx fragments?
And if so, how does it know which one to use with which platform?

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