PTP/develop/setup

PTP Developer Environment Setup

Prerequisites

1. Java 1.5 or later (Note: for Linux, must be Sun or IBM's)
2. Eclipse 3.3.x
3. CDT 4.0
4. OpenMPI 1.2 (the earlier 1.0.2 version is also supported)
5. gdb 6.3 or later (earlier versions may also work)

Setup

1. Download and Install Eclipse 3.3
2. Install CDT 4.0
   1. Launch Eclipse as root
   2. From the menu select: Help->Software Update->Find and Install
   3. Select 'Search for new features to install', click Next
   4. Select 'Europa Discovery Site', click Finish
   5. Select a valid mirror, click Ok
   6. Expand 'Europa Discovery Site' and select 'C and C++ Development', click Next
   7. Read and check 'I accept' click Next and Finish.
   8. Click 'Install All'

1. Setup CVS Access (Howto)
   1. In Eclipse switch to 'CVS Repository Exploring' perspective.
   2. Click on the 'Add CVS Repository' Icon in the CVS Repositories view.
   3. Add the following information:

Host - dev.eclipse.org 
Repository Paths - /cvsroot/tools
User - anonymous
Password - (leave blank)
Connection Type - pserver

1. 1. Click Finish
2. Checkout current project from CVS
   1. Expand Head->org.eclipse.ptp
   2. Expand core directory and select all projects except old , org.eclipse.ptp.simulation.core , and org.eclipse.simulation.ui
   3. Right-click and select 'Check Out'
   4. Expand debug directory and select all projects except old
   5. Right-click and select 'Check Out'
   6. Expand releng directory and select all projects except old
   7. Right-click and select 'Check Out'

1. Build OpenMPI Proxy
2. Create an eclipse application launch configuration

References

Eclipse Downloads [1] CDT Downloads Page [2] CVS Howto [3] PTP Release Notes [4]