RE: [platform-ant-dev] Distribution?

["Dalton, Tom" <tom.dalton@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the speedy response Michael!

 

Bit of background then a couple of questions:

 

My projects are primarily C and C++, with a healthy dose of other languages mixed in to keep things interesting. Traditionally we've used make files to build everything, using make to wrap some of the more exotic build systems where necessary. Within Eclipse, the CDT stuff gives nice error tracing back to the source where there are compile errors, and also has nice features such as name/function auto-completion, though the intellisense features.

 

We have recently started looking at using Ant to replace Make, but I'm concerned that the integration between Ant/cpptasks/Eclipse isn't there.

 

I haven't actually had time to pull a copy of the Platform Ant plugins out of the Java Dev Eclipse distro, so apologies for that. I was wondering - does Platform Ant 'understand' C/C++ and/or the cpptasks (http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/cpptasks/index.html) Ant tasks? If not is there any intention to support this in the (near) term? We need a similar level of integration as that provided by the CDT in order to justify using Ant to replace Make.

 

Thanks for your help,

 

Tom

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From: platform-ant-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:platform-ant-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Rennie
Sent: 21 August 2009 15:15
To: Eclipse Ant integration developers list.
Subject: Re: [platform-ant-dev] Distribution?

Hi Tom,

First of all, is this editor thing part of Platform Ant (and if not, can you point me in the right direction?)

> Yes the editor, outline, Ant view, etc is all part of platform Ant

Secondly, if it is part of Platform Ant, then how do I get the latest set of plugins? Our dev environment is on an airgapped network, using Red Hat Linux boxes, so I cannot use Eclipse's auto update features - I need to download (preferably .tar.gz -type) files. The eclipse-ccase plugin is distributed as a zip file that just extracts into the eclipse install dir, so I'm after something similar.

> Unfortunately there is a no separate download for just platform Ant, but I suppose you could try downloading a version of the Java Eclipse and just copy over org.eclipse.ant.core and org.eclipse.ant.ui to the plugins directory of your C/C++ install.

Michael Rennie

"Dalton, Tom" ---08/21/2009 05:39:00 AM---Hi guys, First of all, apologies that this probably isn't the right place to ask

From: "Dalton, Tom" <tom.dalton@xxxxxxx>
To: <platform-ant-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 08/21/2009 05:39 AM
Subject: [platform-ant-dev] Distribution?
Sent by: platform-ant-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

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Hi guys,

First of all, apologies that this probably isn't the right place to ask this - I have spent about 30 mins trying to find a platform ant newsgroup, user forum etc and can't find anything. I am using the Eclipse 3.5 C/C++ distribution in Linux. This only includes org.apache.ant. However, our project uses Ant to build (using Ant cpptasks for the C++ code). In the Java distribution of Eclipse 3.5, there is a plugin that gives a nice editor for Ant build files, with nice syntax highlighting and an 'intelligent' file outline tree widget thing.

First of all, is this editor thing part of Platform Ant (and if not, can you point me in the right direction?)

Secondly, if it is part of Platform Ant, then how do I get the latest set of plugins? Our dev environment is on an airgapped network, using Red Hat Linux boxes, so I cannot use Eclipse's auto update features - I need to download (preferably .tar.gz -type) files. The eclipse-ccase plugin is distributed as a zip file that just extracts into the eclipse install dir, so I'm after something similar.

Thanks for any help,

Tom Dalton
Build & Tools SME, AMPA

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