Eclipse Yocto Developer's Workspace Setup

This readme describes how to setup a development environment for developing
and testing the eclipse-yocto plugins.

For the time being we recommend using Linux for eclipse-yocto development,
so all of the instructions below should be done on an appropriate Linux distribution.

Prerequisites

1) Install Java Development Kit (jdk) 8+.

If you already have Java 8+ installed on your system you can
skip to step 2.  To check type:

$ java -version

and if it responds with

java version "1.8.0_102"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_102-b14)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.102-b14, mixed mode)

With a version >= 1.8.0 then you already have what you need.

If not installed, download from:

https://java.com/en/download/

and install as appropriate for your system.

Other impls may be used if desired, but they must support JDK 8.

2) Install Maven

If you already have Maven 3.3.9+ installed you may skip to
step 3.

If not installed, download from:

http://maven.apache.org/download.cgi

Install instructions are here

http://maven.apache.org/install.html

2a) Configure Maven for Proxy

If you have a proxy, see

https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-proxies.html
and
https://maven.apache.org/settings.html

and consult your local network admin for the appropriate proxy info.

2) Install Eclipse

a) Download Eclipse Photon or more recent release.   For eclipse-yocto plugin development
three  components are required:   i) Eclipse Java SDK, ii) Eclipse PDE;
iii) Maven 2 Eclipse (m2e).   All three of these components are present in
the package named 'Eclipse IDE for Eclipse Committers'.  All of the packages
are listed here:

https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages

Download the 'Eclipse IDE for Eclipse Committers' and expand into a new directory
(e.g. ~/eclipse.photon) on your local disk.

3) Clone the eclipse-yocto git repo

By default, eclipse's git client (egit) uses ~/git for accessing git repos, so it's
generally a good idea to create and use ~/git for the following clone command.

In ~git type:

$ git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/eclipse-yocto-contrib

When complete, change to the timo/maven branch (temporary)

$ git checkout timo/maven

4) Import Project Set into Eclipse workspace

Open a terminal, navigate to ~/eclipse.photon and type:

$ ./eclipse

Create a new workspace (e.g. workspace.eclipse-yocto)

From main menu:

File->Import...->Team->Team Project Set->Next

Select File radio button and choose 'Browse' button on right

Browse to ~/git/eclipse-yocto-contrib/releng/org.yocto.sdk.releng/projectsets

and choose 'eclipse-yocto.psf' and Finish

This should result in approximately 11 projects appearing in
your workspace.  Some will have compiler errors.

5) Resolve and Set Target Platform

In the Eclipse Package Explorer view (or Projects view) navigate
to org.yocto.sdk.releng/ directory and open (double click)
this file:  eclipse-yocto.target

Once this file is opened with the 'Target Definition' edito, you should
see in the message bar: "Resolving Yocto with R...inition" with a percentage.
This will take some time (possibly minutes depending upon the speed of your
internet connection)

When the resolving is complete, choose 'Set as Target Platform' link in
upper right of the Target Definition Editor.  This should result in
the workspace projects being rebuilt without errors.

If errors still remain in the workspace projects...

6) The first time that Eclipse is installed, the maven 2 Eclipse plugin (m2e) has
to install the tycho plugins.   If this is the case, you will see errors like
these in the Eclipse Problems view:

-------------------
Description     Resource        Path    Location        Type
Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration: org.eclipse.tycho:tycho-compiler-plugin:1.0.0:compile (execution: default-compile, phase: compile)     pom.xml /org.yocto.cmake.managedbuilder line 8  Maven Project Build Lifecycle Mapping Problem
-------------------

If you see errors such as these after resolving and setting the target platform
then you can install the necessary tycho maven plugins by:

1) Go to the Eclipse Problems view
2) Select the first error as above
3) Hit Ctrl-1 (quick fix)
4) Select 'Discover m2e connectors'
5) Select Finish -> Next -> Next -> Accept license agreement -> Finish

After restart you might need to clean and rebuild all projects, and this
should result in a compile with all workspace errors gone.

If it does not, please report to ecilpse-yocto mailing list at

https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/eclipse-yocto

or open bug

https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&product=Eclipse+Plugin&content=

It should install the Tycho maven plugins and restart Eclipse.

You are now setup to build, run, debug eclipse-yocto plugins