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Using the Eclipse compiler without the IDE [message #97332]

Fri, 19 September 2003 12:50

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: Adalbert.Homa.metavante.com

Is there any ways (supported or not by the Eclipse development team) to
use the Eclipse compiler as a standalone compiler ?

The Eclipse compiler clearly can build incrementally much faster than
javac.

Amoung Java developers ant seems to be used, but ant has very rudimentary
dependecy checking (that hapens only for java code and nothing else). What
I would like to use it is to build production level code using the Eclipse
compiler in an automated fashion without the IDE.

Thank You

Re: Using the Eclipse compiler without the IDE [message #97376 is a reply to message #97332]

Fri, 19 September 2003 13:36

Eclipse User

I see several requirements in your question: fast incremental compilation,
non-java dependency checking and production quality compilation.

We have a couple of thousand files that compile in about 30 seconds on
Windows or 15 on our Linux box using javac through ANT. Compiling within
Eclipse is significantly slower than that.

Given that it takes a couple of seconds, at most, to perform an incremental
compile after changing a handful of sources, a faster incremental compiler
would have essentially zero impact. Having said that, having EJC available
would not be a bad thing.

As far as production level code, are you not going to compile everything
from scratch for a production release? This is independent of the
incremental issue but are you saying that the Eclipse compiled code is
superior to javac? Have not hear that but you may be right.

Re: Using the Eclipse compiler without the IDE [message #97391 is a reply to message #97332]

Fri, 19 September 2003 13:56

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: olivier_thomann.ca.ibm.comNOSPAM

Le Fri, 19 Sep 2003 16:50:28 +0000 (UTC), Adalbert.Homa@metavante.com
(AH) a écrit :
>Is there any ways (supported or not by the Eclipse development team) to
>use the Eclipse compiler as a standalone compiler ?
Have a look at https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=43313 At
the end, you will find a link on how to use the Eclipse compiler as a
batch compiler.
--
Olivier

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