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Bundling JRE in a feature [message #1720946]

Fri, 22 January 2016 00:59

Eclipse User

I've followed the instructions https://codeiseasy.wordpress.com/2012/07/31/including-a-jre-in-a-tycho-build/
to bundle JRE in a feature (not as a root file).
All works except file permissions in JRE are not retained during build on Mac.
As a workaround advised here:
https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/tycho-user/msg04632.html
I'm trying to use chmod touchpoint action to add execute bit to binaries inside JRE.

The problem is that I have no clue how to pass the location of a file to the chmod action. I've tried both native and eclipse action, passed @artifact and ${artifact.location} but none seems to be working.

Does anybody have any advice how to handle that?

[Updated on: Fri, 22 January 2016 01:00] by Moderator

Re: Bundling JRE in a feature [message #1721287 is a reply to message #1720946]

Tue, 26 January 2016 06:00

Eclipse User

Since it looks like nobody can answer this I'm going to share my solution.
What is working in setJvm and chmod touchpoint actions is ${installFolder} variable substitution.
So the path should be: ${installFolder}/features/featureid_featureversion/....
Now the problem is that $version$ substitution is not working as advertised. What I had to do is to use maven-resources-plugin to process p2.inf file with the following content (shown for Mac OS X):

instructions.configure=org.eclipse.equinox.p2.touchpoint.eclipse.setJvm(jvm:${installFolder}/features/[plarform_specific_jre_feature_id]_${qualifiedVersion}/jre/lib/jli/libjli.dylib);
instructions.install=org.eclipse.equinox.p2.touchpoint.eclipse.chmod(targetDir:${installFolder}/features/[plarform_specific_jre_feature_id]_${qualifiedVersion}/jre/lib,targetFile:jspawnhelper,permissions:755);
instructions.unconfigure=org.eclipse.equinox.p2.touchpoint.eclipse.setJvm(jvm:null);

Note setting jspawnhelper as executable - without that ProcessBuilder throws exception when trying to execute external process from Java program.

Hope that helps someone.

Re: Bundling JRE in a feature [message #1721290 is a reply to message #1721287]

Tue, 26 January 2016 06:10

Eclipse User

Which - as I've just seen - does not work in case of Oomph install.
Since Oomph installs features in bundle pools the path "${installFolder}/features/...." does not exist of course.

Any ideas anyone?

Re: Bundling JRE in a feature [message #1721308 is a reply to message #1721290]

Tue, 26 January 2016 08:02

Eclipse User

Am 26.01.2016 um 12:10 schrieb Michal Kleczek:
> Which - as I've just seen - does not work in case of Oomph install.
> Since Oomph installs features in bundle pools the path "${installFolder}/features/...." does not exist of course.
I think it should generally be "${bundlePool}/features/...". In standard "stand-alone" installations the install folder
*is* the bundle pool, so it should work in both cases with shared and with unshared bundle pool.

Cheers
/Eike

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Re: Bundling JRE in a feature [message #1791843 is a reply to message #1721308]

Fri, 06 July 2018 03:39

Eclipse User

I tried to use ${bundlePool} but it seems it is not resolved inside Eclipse Target definition and I get the error that chmod failed because the path could not be found. Is this an error of the target editor or do I got something wrong?
instructions.install=org.eclipse.equinox.p2.touchpoint.eclipse.chmod(targetDir:${bundlePool}/features/<my feature name>/jre/bin,targetFile:java,permissions:755);

[Updated on: Fri, 06 July 2018 03:40] by Moderator

Re: Bundling JRE in a feature [message #1791881 is a reply to message #1791843]

Fri, 06 July 2018 09:06

Eclipse User

The P2 director/tycho also seem to not understand ${bunldePool} is there anything that must be set for this to work?

Re: Bundling JRE in a feature [message #1802228 is a reply to message #1791881]

Mon, 04 February 2019 12:58

Eclipse User

Did you ever find a resolution to this?

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