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Build with PDE Build [message #289944]

Mon, 15 August 2005 16:08

Martin JÃ¤ger

Messages: 7
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi there

I'm trying to build a RCP project outside of eclipse with pde-build. The
fetching from cvs, compiling, and packaging of the features works fine.

Now, I saw in the 3.1 build.properties template an undocumented
property: "product".

What does it do? Does it uses my product to adjust the .exe image and
packages the branding also?

How do I use it?
product=myProduct.product
or
product=ch.netcetera.myplugin/myProduct.product

I never see something in the log about it.

Thanks a lot
Martin

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Netcetera AG, 8040 Zuerich

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Re: Build with PDE Build [message #289963 is a reply to message #289944]

Tue, 16 August 2005 02:50

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: pascal.ibm.canada

Come on, it's well documented. It says "/plugin or feature
id/path/to/.product" :-)

More seriously, this will take care of the branding. To use, you need to
refer to the doc product file like in your second proposal.

PaScaL

Martin Jäger wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I'm trying to build a RCP project outside of eclipse with pde-build. The
> fetching from cvs, compiling, and packaging of the features works fine.
>
> Now, I saw in the 3.1 build.properties template an undocumented
> property: "product".
>
> What does it do? Does it uses my product to adjust the .exe image and
> packages the branding also?
>
> How do I use it?
> product=myProduct.product
> or
> product=ch.netcetera.myplugin/myProduct.product
>
> I never see something in the log about it.
>
>
> Thanks a lot
> Martin
>

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Re: Build with PDE Build [message #289972 is a reply to message #289963]

Tue, 16 August 2005 09:54

Martin JÃ¤ger

Messages: 7
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi Pascal

Thank you for the hint. But I get nothing branded out of the build.
I assume to receive a zip file with an ".exe" file named according to
the product with the specified icon, a generated config.ini file and all
my plugins and features in the right directory.

But what the build produces is "only" a zip file of every feature with
all plugins in it (like without the "product" property).

I also do not see anything like zip.product in the ant log.

Do you have an idea what is missing, or am I expecting too much?

Thanks in advance
Martin

Pascal Rapicault wrote:
> Come on, it's well documented. It says "/plugin or feature
> id/path/to/.product" :-)
>
> More seriously, this will take care of the branding. To use, you need to
> refer to the doc product file like in your second proposal.
>
> PaScaL
>
> Martin Jäger wrote:
>
>> Hi there
>>
>> I'm trying to build a RCP project outside of eclipse with pde-build.
>> The fetching from cvs, compiling, and packaging of the features works
>> fine.
>>
>> Now, I saw in the 3.1 build.properties template an undocumented
>> property: "product".
>>
>> What does it do? Does it uses my product to adjust the .exe image and
>> packages the branding also?
>>
>> How do I use it?
>> product=myProduct.product
>> or
>> product=ch.netcetera.myplugin/myProduct.product
>>
>> I never see something in the log about it.
>>
>>
>> Thanks a lot
>> Martin
>>

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Re: Build with PDE Build [message #290094 is a reply to message #289972]

Thu, 18 August 2005 15:09

Greg Akins

Messages: 4
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

My understanding is that you can't do a full export in the scripts. The
only way is to use the File | Export menu.

However, I'm new to this, so I might have gotten bad info.

A related question, since you got your compile working.

I have a simple build script that has this target

<target name="feature">
<eclipse.buildScript
elements="feature@com.sony.sel.cim.atlas.de.feature"
buildDirectory="${basedir}\src"
baseLocation="${baseLocation}" />
</target>

This is run using the Eclipse antRunner, from the base directory (which is
one level above the feature directory.

However, I get a message

org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException: Unable to find feature:
com.sony.sel.cim.atlas.de.feature.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Looks like a classpath problem to me; but
I can't see where I might be missing that.

Any help is appreciated.

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Re: Build with PDE Build [message #290192 is a reply to message #290094]

Fri, 19 August 2005 14:30

Martin JÃ¤ger

Messages: 7
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi Greg

I never used it like you want to do. I built it like it is described in
the excellent article here:
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-PDE-Automation/autom ation.html

But I think your feature code has to lie here:
${baseLocation}/feature/com.sony.sel.cim.atlas.de.feature

Additionally, I hope it is possible to export a product complete in
Eclipse 3.1... without human interaction.

Regards,
Martin

Greg Akins wrote:
> My understanding is that you can't do a full export in the scripts. The
> only way is to use the File | Export menu.
>
> However, I'm new to this, so I might have gotten bad info.
>
> A related question, since you got your compile working.
>
> I have a simple build script that has this target
>
> <target name="feature">
> <eclipse.buildScript
> elements="feature@com.sony.sel.cim.atlas.de.feature"
> buildDirectory="${basedir}\src"
> baseLocation="${baseLocation}" />
> </target>
>
> This is run using the Eclipse antRunner, from the base directory (which
> is one level above the feature directory.
>
> However, I get a message
> org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException: Unable to find feature:
> com.sony.sel.cim.atlas.de.feature.
>
> Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Looks like a classpath problem to me;
> but I can't see where I might be missing that.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>

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Re: Build with PDE Build [message #290274 is a reply to message #290192]

Mon, 22 August 2005 17:19

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: greg.akins.am.sony.com

Martin Jäger wrote:

> Hi Greg

> I never used it like you want to do. I built it like it is described in
> the excellent article here:
> http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-PDE-Automation/autom ation.html

Thanks! I read that article, and am having more luck as I work backwards
through that, rather than trying to implement my own build from scratch.

> Additionally, I hope it is possible to export a product complete in
> Eclipse 3.1... without human interaction.

Unless I misunderstand, this is impossible. There is a bug report with a
fair amount of commentary requesting this very thing (Sorry, I don't have
a bug number, you could look at Bugzilla).

I'm in the progress of trying to get my first PDE build, with the
intention of reverse engineering the resulting Ant scripts to make it less
dependent on Eclipse to build. But haven't made much progress yet.

There is an Maven Mevenide project (Maven Eclipse Plugin Plugin) that
appears to be a build tool for Eclipse plugins. But I'm not sure how
mature that project is; and whether it's for just plugins or full RCP
applications.

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