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Upgrading Eclipse installation to work with Elphel projects, including VDT plugin that launches another Eclipse application (e.g. from Neon to Oxygen) | Upgrading Eclipse installation to work with Elphel projects, including VDT plugin that launches another Eclipse application (e.g. from Neon to Oxygen) | ||
| − | Increase memory sizes in new installation eclipse.ini -make them the same as in previous installation, such as (depending on actual memory available) | + | Increase memory sizes in new installation eclipse.ini -make them the same as in previous installation, such as (depending on actual memory available): |
-Xms4G | -Xms4G | ||
-Xmx6G | -Xmx6G | ||
| + | Copy GTK version '''2''' setting from eclipse.ini for neon to the new one, With the default version '''3''' I'm getting missing files error and at least animated icons do not work) (see also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/breeze-gtk/+bug/1604782 , https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=491855 ): | ||
| + | --launcher.GTK_version | ||
| + | 2 | ||
'''Always backup your workspace files tree or use copies, such as workspace-neon and workspace-oxygen (start with a copy of workspace-neon).''' | '''Always backup your workspace files tree or use copies, such as workspace-neon and workspace-oxygen (start with a copy of workspace-neon).''' | ||
Latest revision as of 10:38, 16 November 2017
Upgrading Eclipse installation to work with Elphel projects, including VDT plugin that launches another Eclipse application (e.g. from Neon to Oxygen)
Increase memory sizes in new installation eclipse.ini -make them the same as in previous installation, such as (depending on actual memory available):
-Xms4G -Xmx6G
Copy GTK version 2 setting from eclipse.ini for neon to the new one, With the default version 3 I'm getting missing files error and at least animated icons do not work) (see also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/breeze-gtk/+bug/1604782 , https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=491855 ):
--launcher.GTK_version 2
Always backup your workspace files tree or use copies, such as workspace-neon and workspace-oxygen (start with a copy of workspace-neon).
Same for secondary workspaces (runtime-EclipseApplication-neon, runtime-EclipseApplication-oxygen). You may find the path to the secondary workspace for VDT plugin here:
Run -> Run Configurations -> Eclipse Application -> Eclipse Application -> Main (tab) -> Location
That may look like: ${workspace_loc}/../runtime-EclipseApplication-oxygen
First open current (working) version of Eclipse (here: Neon), select
File -> Export -> Install -> Installed Software Items to File Select: All Select: Include entries not found in repositories select location where to save the export file
Run new Eclipse version, select new empty workspace, not the working one with your projects
File -> Import -> Install -> Install Software Items from File -> Next Locate exported file select: Install latest version of selected file Finish
Then close Eclipse and open it with workspace-oxygen (copied from workspace-neon). Eclipse will worn you that it will update the workspace and there is no way back. Agree, as it is a copy of the workspace-neon, not workspace-neon itself.
You projects should open correctly. Now change location of the secondary workspace (from ...-neon to ...-oxygen) in:
Run -> Run Configurations -> Eclipse Application -> Eclipse Application -> Main (tab) -> Location
Try running that secondary Eclipse (it will take longer first time before it will ask about updating configuration to the new Eclipse version)
