Export Eclipse Plugin Jar through command Line is not working

Question

I have tried to export one eclipse plugin Using below steps.

Step 1: Open Eclipse -->Export --> Plugin development --> Deployble Plugin and fragments.

Step 2 : Put Destination Directory and on option mark save as ant script.

Step 3 : After Finish plugin jar has been created successfully from GUI and create one build.xml . build.xml output is

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project default="plugin_export" name="build">
<target name="plugin_export">
<pde.exportPlugins destination="C:\Build" exportSource="false"      exportType="directory" plugins="com.user.plugin" useJARFormat="true"/>
</target>
</project>

Step 4: Copy build.xml into eclipse dir and use below command line to execute the build.

    eclipsec.exe -noSplash -data "C:\Workspace" -application    org.eclipse.ant.core.antRunner -Debug

No error getting on console. But Jar not created on 'C:\\Build' location.

NOTE : This project has plug-in target platform set for some dependency jar is required to build the project. 1 .IS that is the problem? 2 .How to pass Target platform command during exporting eclipse plugin ?

When I check this step with sample project this is working fine . But only for above project this is not working.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards, Deb

Answer 1

pde.exportPlugins runs asynchronously (that is it just starts the export process) this make it more or less impossible to use in a headless ant script like yours.

Eclipse bug 58413 describes this and is marked 'won't fix'