How to build Eclipse, Enide Studio 2014 or your own Eclipse IDE
by Paul Verest
Hi All
(Note: If you are looking for released versions, check http://www.nodeclipse.org/updates/)
You can get all Eclipse distribution from http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/.
They are result of EPP Eclipse Packaging Project http://www.eclipse.org/epp/.
While the project page is not updated for 3 years, earlier in 2014 they made maven-based CI build for all Eclipse distribution.
Here is repo that was used to build Enide Studio 2014 https://github.com/Nodeclipse/org.nodeclipse.epp.packages. Get it with
$ git clone https://github.com/Nodeclipse/org.nodeclipse.epp.packages.git
It is clone of http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/epp/org.eclipse.epp.packages.git
Eclipse repository as you can see from README.
And it can be updated any time
$ git remote add eclipse http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/epp/org.eclipse.epp.packages.git
$ git pull eclipse
Check with
$ git remote --verbose
I Added:
- enide.package.standard
that is command to build is
mvn clean package -Penide.package.standard
If you have time to play with this heavy build, take a look around.
Once again I am going to look inside after 0.15. And actually better wait for Eclipse 4.4.0.RC0 will come soon, that would be Enide Studio prerelease version.
The build is not 100% successful on Windows (see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=426416)
After build packages are not zipped, so you can run directly.
Actually you can get similar result by running Nodeclipse CLI Installer
nci new from luna to /progs/eclipse-diy-luna/
But with maven build you can get more configuration option, e.g. what plugins to be bundled. Do your own, or make one more distribution for Nodeclipse/Enide.
Note: it is not allowed to distribute Eclipse packages using Eclipse name and/or logo,
that’s why all vendors do not include Eclipse in product names event though,
they are based on Eclipse.