Environment setup for development

[kimhyohwan]

"When importing the source code downloaded from the siard-suite repository as a project in Eclipse, many errors occur. Please explain the environment setup for development in detail."

[mburri]

Hi @kimhyohwan

We are not familiar (anymore) with eclipse, since we usually use Intellij. I think the community edition should be enough to work with the SIARD Suite sources.

Without knowing your error messages, here are some hints that might help you:

• make sure to use java 17 with javafx installed. Be aware that javafx does not ship with standard distributions. As mentioned in the readme, you can get one from here: https://www.azul.com/downloads/?version=java-17-lts&package=jdk-fx#zulu
• make sure that you can run ./gradlew clean build from the command line
• if this works, you should be able to run the application from the command line with ./gradlew run (./gradlew.bat run on windows)
• Now open the project in eclipse, I guess that you have to add the lib folder to the projects classpath
• User SiardApplication#main to launch the application from within eclipse

Let me know if any of theses tipps helped you to narrow down your problem.

[kimhyohwan]

Any additional plugins to install, or libraries to download?

It was successful to 'build' and 'run' using the command.

[mburri]

Not that I'm aware of. As I said, I'm unfamiliar with eclipse. Did you add the lib folder to the classpath?
What error messages do you get?

[mburri]

The repo of previous implementation (SiardGUI) was set up to work with eclipse and still contains the eclipse project files, especially the .classpath: https://github.com/sfa-siard/SiardGui/blob/main/.classpath

The old gui was basically the same tech stack - Maybe this helps?

[mburri]

There is a section on how to setup a java fx project with eclipse in the openjfx documentation: https://openjfx.io/openjfx-docs/