如何从源代码安装intellij插件？

Question

I'm trying to install the ideaVim plugin for intellij from source. I'm using this repo .

When I cd into the top level of the ideavim directory and then run ant jar , it produces the IdeaVim.jar file fine.

Then I go into my ~/.IntelliJIdea13/config/ folder and do a mkdir plugins to create the directory. I then copied my IdeaVim.jar file into this folder. So then I start intellij and go to plugins and enable the ideaVim plugin and it tells me to restart intellij. So I do but when it starts up I get this error:

Plugin 'IdeaVIM' failed to initialize and will be disabled.  Please restart Intellij IDEA.

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.maddyhome.idea.vim.VimPlugin PluginClassLoader[IdeaVIM, 0.35]
  at com.intellij.idea.plugins.cl.PluginClassLoader.loadClass(PluginClassLoader.java:68)
  ...

Does anyone have any idea why this could be failing to initialize? Did I do the ant build wrong or do I have to include more then my .jar file in ~/.IntelliJIdea13/ ?

Answer 1

Building the plugin from source is unlikely to be the issue. The issue is probably how you added the plugin to IntelliJ.

Try adding the plugin through IntelliJ's GUI (version 13.1.3):

1. Preferences > Plugins > Install plugin from disk...
2. Navigate to the .jar file