Help request: Eclipse PDE Export problem

meekrosoft · **Help request: Eclipse PDE Export problem -** 04-16-2008, 08:36 AM

Hi,

I'm relatively new to building Eclipse plug-ins and I have run into a problem I can't solve myself. I have created a plugin project using the wizard and it's working pretty well, but I moved the source code tree to another place to satisfy our in-house SCM. After I did this I linked the source using:
Right click -> Build path -> Link source, and I name the linked folder "src".

I get no compile errors with this setup, and I can run the eclipse plugin in a new eclipse instance without any trouble, but when I try to export the plug-in I get an error:

Error
Reason: Problems during export
Details:
...\build.xml:102: srcdir "........workspace/src" does not exist!

I have tried playing with the values in the Build Configuration tab of the plugin.xml, and also editing the raw build.properties files but without luck.

Does anyone have any suggestions for what I might try to do to fix this?

I don't really understand why it should be that I can run the plugin in an instance of eclipse but not export the plugin (I guess they use the same method for creating the plugin?).

OS: Win XP sp 3
Eclipse version: 3.3.0

Any help is greaty appreciated!

Regards,
Mike

karen_rumani · 04-17-2008, 02:27 AM

hi,

In eclipse linking refers to pointing to a resource on the local machine. So u create a folder (in your case 'src' then link it to a folder in ur local system). In this case, when u export the linked resources from local system will not be exported as this is not considered part of the project. So while exporting u need to exclude the linked 'src' folder.

If these sources are compiled into another folder (say bin) inside the plugin project that will get bundled without problem.

Guess that should solve ur problem.

meekrosoft · 04-17-2008, 03:57 AM

Hi Karen,

Thanks for your help, this set me along the right path. I has deselected src from the build tab but there was still an entry in build.properties file. All is well in the world :-D

Cheers,
Mike

meekrosoft · 04-17-2008, 04:36 AM

Ah, but here's the catch - the plugin doesn't build correctly when you remove the source line from build.properties. So I guess you can't have linked source with a PDE plug-in which is a little disappointing, I don't see any technical reason why the source has to be under the eclipse root. C'est la vie :-)