[OSM-dev] I've committed a whole new set of mappaint icons - how do I compile the jar file?!?

[Christof Dallermassl]

> I would like to build a new mappaint.jar file (to include it into svn 
> and also for some other experiments), but unfortunately my JAVA 
> knowledge is a bit rusted (it's almost 10 years ago), and especially the 
> build environment has completely changed since then.
> 
> The only information I could find (at 
> http://josm.eigenheimstrasse.de/wiki/DevelopingPlugins) is describing a 
> bit of the internas, but not how to set up a plugin build environment.
> 
> So what do I need? I guess: JAVA SDK and probably Eclipse? What do I 
> have to start with?

not that I know of. But it's quite simple: you need a java sdk (version 
1.5 or better). Eclipse is optional, but recommended (or any other IDE).

Subversion on command line or in eclipse to checkout the code (eclipse 
needs a plugin to support subversion: I use subclipse (add update site 
http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.2.x to eclipse (Menu Help/Software 
Updates).

ant (http://ant.apache.org) is the "make for java". It reads the 
build.xml file and compiles, zips, etc. Download ant and install 
somewhere. Add the bin directory to your path.
"ant build" creates the new jar file.

Optionally, ant can also be executed from within eclipse (and is also 
included in eclipse). Just open the build.xml file and in the outline 
view you can run ant for a given target.

"ant install" copies the jar file into .josm/plugins.

hope that helps
christof
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