Building and Installing the Eclipse Plugin

Preparing an Environment

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We will assume that our build directory is /build/eclipse. All necessary tools, directories and prerequisite will be place there. Thus, go to this directory first:

mkdir /build/eclipse
cd /build/eclipse

Also create a directory for storing downloaded Maven packages:

mkdir /build/eclipse/repository

Download and extract Maven:

wget https://dlcdn.apache.org/maven/maven-3/3.5.4/binaries/apache-maven-3.5.4-bin.tar.gz
tar -xf apache-maven-3.5.4-bin.tar.gz

Download and extract JDK 11 to /build/eclipse/jdk-11.0.17.

Download and extract Eclipse 2020.03 with CDT for Linux:

wget https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/downloads/release/2020-03/R/eclipse-cpp-2020-03-R-incubation-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz
tar -xf eclipse-cpp-2020-03-R-incubation-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz

Download and extract Eclipse 2020.03 with CDT for Windows:

wget https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/downloads/release/2020-03/R/eclipse-cpp-2020-03-R-incubation-win32-x86_64.zip
tar -xf eclipse-cpp-2020-03-R-incubation-win32-x86_64.zip

Clone a plugin's repository:

git clone https://github.com/foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors/arc_gnu_eclipse

Building the Plugin

Use this commands:

export JAVA_HOME=/build/eclipse/jdk-11.0.17
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
/build/eclipse/apache-maven-3.5.4/bin/mvn \
    -Dmaven.repo.local=/build/eclipse/repository clean install

After that an archive with the plugin will be saved here:

arc_gnu_eclipse/repository/target/repository-2019.9.0-SNAPSHOT.zip

Installing the Plugin

You can install the plugin to Eclipse for Linux this way:

unzip arc_gnu_eclipse/repository/target/repository-2019.9.0-SNAPSHOT.zip \
      -d eclipse-cpp-2020-03-R-incubation-linux-gtk-x86_64/dropins
rm -f eclipse-cpp-2020-03-R-incubation-linux-gtk-x86_64/dropins/artifacts.jar \
      eclipse-cpp-2020-03-R-incubation-linux-gtk-x86_64/dropins/content.jar
echo "[email protected]/ARC_GNU_IDE_Workspace" >> eclipse-cpp-2020-03-R-incubation-linux-gtk-x86_64/eclipse.ini

You can install the plugin to Eclipse for Windows this way:

unzip arc_gnu_eclipse/repository/target/repository-2019.9.0-SNAPSHOT.zip \
      -d eclipse-cpp-2020-03-R-incubation-win32-x86_64/dropins
rm -f eclipse-cpp-2020-03-R-incubation-win32-x86_64/dropins/artifacts.jar \
      eclipse-cpp-2020-03-R-incubation-win32-x86_64/dropins/content.jar
echo "[email protected]/ARC_GNU_IDE_Workspace" >> eclipse-cpp-2020-03-R-incubation-win32-x86_64/eclipse.ini