Re: Using Eclipse with Frysk

[Rick Moseley <rmoseley at redhat dot com>]

Wu Zhou wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Rick Moseley wrote:
>
>   
> > 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.   :)
> >     
>
> Yes.  I have similar feeling as you.  I found it most useful in reading 
> Java code.  This can help me to understand Frysk's code.  :-)
>
> BTW, can you elaborate a little on why Eclipse can't be used to build 
> Frysk?  Is the building process of Frysk one of the reason?  I guess 
> Eclipse can't emulate the building process Frysk is using.  But I am not 
> very sure.  I am very new to Eclipse indeed.
That is pretty much the problem in a nutshell.  Eclipse does not play 
well with projects generated with the "autotools" method we are using in 
Frysk.  There is an effort underway within Red Hat right now on the 
Eclipse development team to write a plugin that will make Eclipse more 
friendly with autotools projects.  We'll keep an eye on that to see if 
Frysk can utilize it.

>   
>
> If it can, I guess that will be great.  We can have Frysk as one of Eclipse
> plugins.  I believe this will make Frysk easy to inter-operate with other 
> tools.
>   
On the roadmap is to have Frysk available as an Eclipse plugin, but that 
is quite a ways down the road.
>  
>   
> > 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)
> >     
>
> One novice question: how to attach the source code of these package into 
> Eclipse (or the new created Frysk project)?  This can help me track into the 
> java-gnome code.  I guess I might need to create a java-gnome project some 
> where.  Or some action else?
>   
You can go out to the Fedora download servers and get the source rpms 
for any of these packages and install them and import them into Eclipse.
>   
> >    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.
> >     
>
> Yes.  It is really helpful.  Thanks a bunch!
>   
Glad to be of service.  We hope you will be making contributions to the 
Frysk project in the near future.   :)

Rick

> Regards
> - Wu Zhou
>