Building iDempiere without Eclipse

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It is possible to build iDempiere without Eclipse.

This is possible thanks to the Buckminster headless functionality.

Instructions:

Following instructions from http://www.eclipse.org/buckminster/downloads.html

Download director_latest.zip from this link
Unzip it into $DIRECTOR_HOME folder (you decide which folder)

cd $DIRECTOR_HOME  # replace DIRECTOR_HOME with your preferred folder for this
unzip director_latest.zip

Using director download buckminster headless into $BUCKMINSTER_HOME folder (you decide which folder)

director -r http://download.eclipse.org/tools/buckminster/headless-4.4/ -d $BUCKMINSTER_HOME -p Buckminster -i org.eclipse.buckminster.cmdline.product
# Note: replace $BUCKMINSTER_HOME with your preferred folder for this

Install the prerequisites (Core, PDE, Maven) into buckminster

cd $BUCKMINSTER_HOME
buckminster install http://download.eclipse.org/tools/buckminster/headless-4.4/ org.eclipse.buckminster.core.headless.feature
buckminster install http://download.eclipse.org/tools/buckminster/headless-4.4/ org.eclipse.buckminster.pde.headless.feature
buckminster install http://download.eclipse.org/tools/buckminster/headless-4.4/ org.eclipse.buckminster.maven.headless.feature

Clone the repository you downloaded on Download the Code step (you can also use your actual installation, but I prefer to clone it to avoid mixing environments)

cd $HOME/sources  # Or use the folder where you downloaded the idempiere project
hg clone idempiere testheadless

Create the target platform (replace below $HOME/sources with the folder where you have your cloned repositories)

cd $BUCKMINSTER_HOME
buckminster -data $HOME/sources/testheadless importtargetdefinition -A "$HOME/sources/testheadless/org.adempiere.sdk-feature/build-target-platform.target"

Materialize the project

buckminster -L DEBUG -consoleLog -data $HOME/sources/testheadless import -P $HOME/sources/testheadless/org.adempiere.sdk-feature/materialize.properties "$HOME/sources/testheadless/org.adempiere.sdk-feature/adempiere.cquery"

Download zk libraries (this is not always required, but sometimes the download of zk libraries fail and it can be run by hand with these commands):

cd $HOME/sources/testheadless/org.zkoss.zk.library
ant -f copyjars.xml
ant -f copysources.xml

Build

cd $BUCKMINSTER_HOME
buckminster -L DEBUG -consoleLog -data $HOME/sources/testheadless build -t

Perform site.p2 action

buckminster -L DEBUG -consoleLog -data $HOME/sources/testheadless perform \
    -D 'qualifier.replacement.*=generator:buildTimestamp' \
    -D "generator.buildTimestamp.format='v'yyyyMMdd-HHmm" \
    -D 'target.os=*'      \
    -D 'target.ws=*'     \
    -D 'target.arch=*'      \
    'org.adempiere.server:eclipse.feature#site.p2'

Perform create.product.zip action for linux x86_64

buckminster -L DEBUG -consoleLog -data $HOME/sources/testheadless perform \
    -D 'qualifier.replacement.*=generator:buildTimestamp' \
    -D "generator.buildTimestamp.format='v'yyyyMMdd-HHmm" \
    -D 'target.os=linux'  \
    -D 'target.ws=gtk'   \
    -D 'target.arch=x86_64' \
    -D product.features=org.idempiere.eclipse.platform.feature.group \
    -D product.profile=DefaultProfile \
    -D product.id=org.adempiere.server.product \
    'org.adempiere.server:eclipse.feature#create.product.zip'

After this step the server installer must be found at:

/tmp/buckminster/build/org.adempiere.server_4.1.0-eclipse.feature/idempiereServer.gtk.linux.x86_64.zip

This tutorial is brought to you by Carlos Ruiz from GlobalQSS. Feel free to improve directly or suggest using the Discussion tab.