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Multi Platform Launchers? [message #117303]

Thu, 11 September 2008 09:03

Eclipse User

Hi there,

I would like to install eclipse in one directory but with binary
launchers for multiple platforms (i.e. Windows and Linux).

Hence I expect to have an "eclipse.exe" for Windows and an "eclipse"
binary for Linux.

Rationale is that Eclipse is installed on a network-drive which is
accessible for both Windows and Linux clients and hence it would be
easier to maintain only one installation than two.

I tried for Eclipse 3.3 once to simply copy a Linux and a Windows
Eclipse Distribution on top of each other. This worked fine. But with
version 3.4 starting Eclipse on either of the OS I get a lot of error
messages that the platform filter foes not match.

Any possibility to do that?

Cheers,
Hauke

Re: Multi Platform Launchers? [message #117328 is a reply to message #117303]

Thu, 11 September 2008 13:39

Eclipse User

The key point here is that in 3.4 the bundles that are installed into
the framework are managed by p2 and listed out in the configuration.
(configuration/org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator/bundle s.info)

Running on different platforms is going to require a different set of
platform specific fragments, so you will need separate configuration
areas per platform.

In 3.4 you will likely need to manage the 2 platforms as 2 separate
installs, but you can have them share bundles with a bundle pool. So it
could look something like

install/win32/configuration
win32/eclipse.exe
linux/configration
linux/eclipse
plugins
features

The p2 agent
( http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/equinox/drops/R-3.4-2008 06172000/index.php)
which will allow you to set up installs like this.

It may be possible to achieve your old setup by handcrafting a
configuration and using the dropins folder, but this would be hard to
maintain and upgrade.

-Andrew
Hauke Fuhrmann wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I would like to install eclipse in one directory but with binary
> launchers for multiple platforms (i.e. Windows and Linux).
>
> Hence I expect to have an "eclipse.exe" for Windows and an "eclipse"
> binary for Linux.
>
> Rationale is that Eclipse is installed on a network-drive which is
> accessible for both Windows and Linux clients and hence it would be
> easier to maintain only one installation than two.
>
> I tried for Eclipse 3.3 once to simply copy a Linux and a Windows
> Eclipse Distribution on top of each other. This worked fine. But with
> version 3.4 starting Eclipse on either of the OS I get a lot of error
> messages that the platform filter foes not match.
>
> Any possibility to do that?
>
> Cheers,
> Hauke

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