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| Summary: | A clear example of how to generate build.xml files for a feature at command line. | ||
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| Product: | [Eclipse Project] PDE | Reporter: | Alex Le <unbonnevie> |
| Component: | Build | Assignee: | pde-build-inbox <pde-build-inbox> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | P3 | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Windows XP | ||
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Hi, Please kindly help out on this "bug" with an example promptly. I have done much research and am wondering if Eclipse 3.x.x is able to do what requested in this bug report. Thanks. PluginPath and buildDirectory are mutually exclusie. If you want to use pluginPath: then you have to give all the folders of all the plugins, as well as the full path to the feature.xml file. In your case: pluginPath should be: ...../MyWork/plugin1, ..../MyWork/plugin2, ..../MyWork/MyFeature/feature.xml If you want to use buildDirectory, then features and plugins must respectively be located in a folder called features and in a folder called plugins (same organisation than the binary form). Hi, I re-opened this "bug"...I tried what PaScaL suggested per comment #2, but I got the below. I took out the 'buildDirectory' attribute. The documentation says that 'install' attribute is "deprecated, use buildDirectory instead'. Unfortunately, again per comment #2, I have to use 'pluginPath' rather than the 'buildDirectory' attribute. Thanks for any tips on this. BUILD FAILED buildscripts.xml:29: org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException: Install location must be specified. I got it to work using:
<eclipse.buildScript
elements="feature@com.my.feature"
buildDirectory=""
baseLocation="/Users/me/Desktop/eclipse"
buildingOSGi="true"
children="true"
recursiveGeneration="true"
configInfo="*,*,*"
pluginPath="/Users/me/workspace/75757/MyFeature/feature.xml, /Users/me/workspace/
75757/plugins/plugin1, /Users/me/workspace/75757/plugins/plugin2"
/>
I got it worked. I have to use 'buildDirectory' as well. Thanks! Alex. Just a question on the side but relevant to this "bug"... Is it possible that I can specify site.xml instead of feature.xml in the 'pluginPath' attribute so that all the features' and plugins' build.xml files that site.xml references to will get generated? Does Eclipse 3.x.x support this? Thanks. No. We are thinking about it,but we may not have enough time / resource to do it. |
Hi, Please provide a clear example of how to generate build.xml files for a feature at command line. There are many people who use Eclipse have encountered the below infamous error. org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException: Unable to find feature: x.y.z. Many posts from IBM/Eclipse engineers that keep referencing to the user guide, which is very scarcely written, and to script files that add more confusion to the situation. Ok, all the Eclipse-user community needs is a very simple BUT exact to the values used in the XML file to generate build.xml files for a feature. Consider this scenario. In my directory C:\MyWork, I have the below directories ("MyFeature", "Plugin#1", and "Plugin#2") and the file called buildscripts.xml. Please take the names as is; that is, the directory name for "MyFeature" is "MyFeature", literally, not "my.com.feature". MyFeature/feature.xml has the id of "my.com.feature". MyWork MyFeature plugin#1 plugin#2 buildscripts.xml buildscripts.xml has the below contents. *Is the below correct and what needs to be fixed to have the build.xml files generated into the above directories, "MyFeature", "plugin#1", "plugin#2"?* The command to run in the "MyWork" directory is: java -cp c:\eclipse\startup.jar org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main -application org.eclipse.ant.core.antRunner -buildfile buildscripts.xml "buildScripts" <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project name="my.com.project" default="buildScripts" basedir="."> <!-- Comments: --> <target name="init"> <!-- Need to change on this on different platform. The standard Eclipse installation location is used here for the WINDOWS XP platform. --> <property name="eclipse.install.dir" value="c:/eclipse"/> </target> <target name="buildScripts" depends="init"> <eclipse.buildScript elements="feature@my.com.feature" buildDirectory="${basedir}/MyFeature" baseLocation="${eclipse.install.dir}" buildingOSGi="true" children="true" recursiveGeneration="true" devEntries="${basedir}/plugin#1/bin,${basedir}/plugin#2/bin" configInfo="*, *, *" pluginPath="${basedir}/plugin#1/,${basdir}/plugin#2/" /> </target> </project>