How build JBoss Developer Studio from source?

Question

Ciao,

Anyone tried to build JBoss Developer Studio from the source-zip available at (requires free reqistration) JDBS source-zip ?

In the /build-directory, if I just do

  mvn clean install

it will complaint about missing child-projects.

So I found the comment in the pom:

<!-- for bootstrapping the parent and target-platform poms via Mead, we need to be able to fetch from this folder and run
    this profile (excluding all others); currently parent pom includes target-platform build too, so only need to build the parent
    mvn clean install -P parent,\!libs,\!tests,\!jmx,\!archives,\!as,\!common,\!jst,\!xulrunner,\!vpe \
    -P \!jsf,\!freemarker,\!hibernatetools,\!portlet,\!struts,\!cdi,\!birt,\!seam,\!examples \
    -P \!maven,\!ws,\!gwt,\!deltacloud,\!runtime,\!usage,\!central,\!aggregate-coverage
-->

and tried that mvn-command, but then it complaints:

  Child module .\parent\..\target-platform of .\parent\pom.xml does not exist

I never used Mead, and dont understand that stuff about boot-strapping and target-platform...

Anyways, what is the proper way to make this build work?

Answer 1

Frankly, no one's ever asked for it.

Building JBDS 6 is a three-step process:

• build JBoss Tools component projects from github sources (mostly just fetching sources from git, then mvn clean install

• build JBoss Tools aggregate site from github sources (fetch sources from https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-build-sites )

• build JBDS aggregate site + installer from SVN sources (fetch sources from SVN or use source zip)

I've opened a JIRA for this request:

https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-2456