From: Ben Soares The method here is described in terms of using a command line. You can easily do this on linux or in a Terminal window in macOS. You can do it in Windows. We develop in Eclipse, and support settings to develop and save Jalview source code
in our preferred style. We also support running the Jalview application, debugging
and running tests with TestNG from within Eclipse. To get Jalview set up as a project in Eclipse, we recommend using at least the 2019-12
+ To get Jalview set up as a project in Eclipse, we recommend using at least the 2020-03
version of Eclipse IDE for Java Developers which you can download from the Eclipse
website: https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/. Since Eclipse 2020-03 you are encouraged to use the Eclipse Installer (see the Eclipse Downloads page).
In the installer, when given a choice of packages for Eclipse you should choose the "Eclipse IDE for Enterprise Java Developers" package. At time of writing, TestNG for Eclipse does not show up in the Eclipse Marketplace
-as the latest released version does not install in Eclipse 2019-03.
+as the latest released version does not install in Eclipse 2020-03.
However, you can install a working release of TestNG for Eclipse by going to Help->Install New Software... and entering
@@ -1121,7 +1121,7 @@ list of media types (i.e. platform specific installers) install4j shoul
If you have already downloaded Jalview using git clone
then you can import this folder into Eclipse directly.
Before importing the cloned git repo you must create the Eclipse project files. You can do this by either running
+gradle eclipse
or
+Unzipping the file utils/eclipse/eclipse_startup_files.zip
in the base repo directory (jalview
)
It is important to import Jalview as a Gradle project (not as a Java project), so go to
File->Import...
diff --git a/doc/building.md b/doc/building.md index 06e796d..e8328d2 100644 --- a/doc/building.md +++ b/doc/building.md @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ java -jar getdown-launcher.jar . jalview The method here is described in terms of using a command line. You can easily do this on linux or in a Terminal window in macOS. You can do it in Windows. * Java 11 compliant JDK -* gradle 5.2 or above +* gradle 5.2 or above *(NB gradle 6.6 and above currently produces NullPointerExceptions during the build. This is non-fatal and does not affect the build. Use gradle 6.5.1 to avoid this)* * git > The versions and installation methods here are just suggestions (which we have tested @@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ We develop in Eclipse, and support settings to develop and save Jalview source c in our preferred style. We also support running the Jalview application, debugging and running tests with TestNG from within Eclipse. -To get Jalview set up as a project in Eclipse, we recommend using at least the 2019-12 +To get Jalview set up as a project in Eclipse, we recommend using at least the 2020-03 version of Eclipse IDE for Java Developers which you can download from the Eclipse website: