Using Eclipse with Frysk

[Rick Moseley <rmoseley at redhat dot com>]

Hi all,

Someone asked on #frysk the other day about using Eclipse to work on 
Frysk and suggested we add some how-to detail to the Frysk webpage.  I 
told them I was using it, although in a somewhat degraded manner.  For a 
number of reasons, Eclipse cannot be used to totally build Frysk, but it 
can be a great help in writing/modifying any Java code despite what the 
emacs pushers say.   :)

Here are the steps I use in bringing Frysk into an Eclipse project on an 
FC5 system.  If someone has a better way, please feel free to chime in.

1)  Check out frysk from the website(see http://sourceware.org/frysk for 
how to do this)
2)  Bring up Eclipse
3)  Click on File->New->Java Project->Next
4)  Enter your desired project name
5)  Select the "Create project from existing source"
6)  "Browse..." to the directory where Frysk was imported
7)  Select the top level "frysk" directory that came in from CVS
8)  Click on "Next"
9)  Select the "Libraries" tab at the top of the window
10) Select "Add External JARS..."
11) Browse to /usr/share/java and add the following jars:
     cairo1.0.jar       (cairo-java)
     glade2.12.jar      (libglade-java)
     glib0.2.jar        (glib-java)
     gnome2.12.jar      (libgnome-java)
     gnu.getopt.jar     (gnu-getopt)
     gtk2.8.jar         (libgtk-java)
     jdom.jar           (jdom)

   If you do not have one of the jars listed, you will need to add the
    package listed on the right in parentheses that provides it to your 
system.

12) Click on "Finish"


You should wind up with a fairly usable project with the Frysk source 
code.  You can make modifications to the source code and check them back 
into the CVS repo, but you will still need to build Frysk from the 
command line.  I usually have two different Frysk repos checked out, one 
I use to build Frysk("build" repo), and another that I use for Eclipse 
only("eclipse repo").  I usually do the editing with Eclipse, check it 
in, and then go to the "build" repo, do a "cvs update -d" and then 
rebuild there.  Also, usually, each morning I do a "cvs update -d" in 
the eclipse repo to make sure I have the latest source there.

Hope this helps.  As I said earlier, if anyone has a better way, please 
feel free to add your comments/suggestions.

Rick